Commercial Bakeries · North Carolina

Gastonia Nc Plant

Gastonia, NC · ~81 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gastonia Nc Plant runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Commercial Bakeries workplace, earning a grade B.

Gastonia Nc Plant: 2.4 TCR = 72% of Commercial Bakeries BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gastonia Nc Plant safety composite

Gastonia Nc Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−2.8

2016→2023

Gastonia Nc Plant injury rate improved

Gastonia Nc Plant's TCR fell 2.8 from 4.0 in 2016 to 1.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.0 · 2017=3.2 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=1.2 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311812 · Gastonia, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 72% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #8/24
  • PHOTO Granello Bakery Inc.
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~81 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Granello Bakery Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gastonia Nc Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Gastonia Nc Plant averages 2.4 TCR (72% of the Commercial Bakeries BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Gastonia Nc Plant TCR series: 2016=4 · 2017=3.2 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=0 · 2020=1.2 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=1.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Gastonia Nc Plant falls in its industry

1,014 Commercial Bakeries establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 24 Commercial Bakeries employers in North Carolina.

Gastonia Nc Plant (81 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 01,0002,0003,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Gastonia Nc Plant
Gastonia Nc Plant (81 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Gastonia Nc Plant has fewer employees than the Commercial Bakeries median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2023 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2022 3.5 3.5 3 0 0
2020 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 3.5 2.3 3 0 0
2017 3.2 1.1 3 0 0
2016 4.0 3.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311812 · NC · Gastonia

1,014 Commercial Bakeries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 182 employers in Gastonia, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Granello Bakery Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR CASTROVILLE CA (13507 BLACKIE RD) DEPOT 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harris Baking Company 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 58 Chattanooga TN 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Battleboro Ag Partnership 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Concord Electric 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fayetteville Resource Center PNG 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pike Gas Services, LLC South Carolina Statewide Operations 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston Memorial Hospital, Incorporated d/b/a CaroMont Regional Medical Center 3,156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston County Government 1,711 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wix Allen Plant 931 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gastonia Components and Logistics - Tulip 912 FTE
NAT-TCR All Divisions 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Steel Technologies Decatur 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR ColdPoint Logistics, LLC 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR McCloskey International Warehouse 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kyhb1 - L&D-Aviation Blvd 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE KW International, Inc. (1130-Bensenville-IL) 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE House of Design, LLC 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arvada Care and Rehabilitation Center 81 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.