Blood and Organ Banks · North Carolina

Gastonia-New Hope, NC - Biomat

Name: Gastonia-New Hope, NC - Biomat Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Gastonia, NC · ~35 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.1
Avg TCR: 3.8
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Gastonia-New Hope, NC - Biomat runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Blood and Organ Banks workplace, earning a grade B.

Gastonia-New Hope, NC - Biomat: 2.1 TCR = 56% of Blood and Organ Banks BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gastonia-New Hope, NC - Biomat safety composite

Gastonia-New Hope, NC - Biomat scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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).

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 2.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers
DART rate: F 4.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Gastonia-New Hope, NC - Biomat: 0.0 → 4.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.2 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2023

Gastonia-New Hope, NC - Biomat's TCR rose 4.2 from 0.0 in 2021 to 4.2 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621991 · Gastonia, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 56% of ind

DART 4.2 DART
RANK #18/59
PHOTO GAATL-OPI-ATLANTA
BOOK 2y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GAATL-OPI-ATLANTA (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.1
GAATL-OPI-ATLA

2.1
St. Joseph

2.1
Kansas City 01

2.1
Yuma 10515

2.1

What this shows Gastonia-New Hope, NC - Biomat averages 2.1 TCR (56% of the Blood and Organ Banks BLS benchmark).

Gastonia-New Hope, NC - Biomat TCR series: 2021=0 · 2023=4.2 · BLS 3.8

Where Gastonia-New Hope, NC - Biomat falls in its industry

1,713 Blood and Organ Banks establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 59 Blood and Organ Banks employers in North Carolina.

Gastonia-New Hope, NC - Biomat (35 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Gastonia-New Hope, NC - Biomat has fewer employees than the Blood and Organ Banks median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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	4.2	4.2	1	0	0
2021	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621991 · NC · Gastonia

1,713 Blood and Organ Banks 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	GAATL-OPI-ATLANTA	ATLANTA, GA	2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	St. Joseph	ST. JOSEPH, MO	2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Kansas City 011	KANSAS CITY, MO	2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Yuma 10515	YUMA, AZ	2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Boykin Farms, Inc.	MIDDLESEX	35 FTE
STATE-SIZE	NEW COLONY SOW FARM 6276 -EST	COLUMBIA	35 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Goldsboro Field Services	GOLDSBORO	35 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Butterball LLC Hatchery # 2	GOLDSBORO	35 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Gaston Memorial Hospital, Incorporated d/b/a CaroMont Regional Medical Center	Gastonia	3,156 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Gaston County Government	Gastonia	1,711 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Wix Allen Plant	Gastonia	931 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Gastonia Components and Logistics - Tulip	Gastonia	912 FTE
NAT-TCR	Mopvr - Kansas City	Kansas City, MO	2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Southern States Electric Co.	Murfreesboro, TN	2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Sterling Concrete Corp	North Oxford, MA	2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	McPherson Concrete Products	Mcpherson, KS	2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Automotive Service Products	Burlington, KY	35 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Construction	Edgewood, MD	35 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Automatic Fire Sprinkler, LLC	Normal, IL	35 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Trench Shore Rentals -Phoenix	Phoenix, AZ	35 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, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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