Air laid nonwoven fabrics manufacturing · North Carolina

Gastonia Plant

Dallas, NC · ~88 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gastonia Plant runs at 105% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Air laid nonwoven fabrics manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Gastonia Plant: 3.5 TCR = 105% of Air laid nonwoven fabrics manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gastonia Plant safety composite

Gastonia Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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

−2.6

2019→2021

Gastonia Plant injury rate improved

Gastonia Plant's TCR fell 2.6 from 4.8 in 2019 to 2.1 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=4.8 · 2021=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 313230 · Dallas, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 105% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #24/42
  • PHOTO Jones Fiber Products…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~88 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jones Fiber Products, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gastonia Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gastonia Plant averages 3.5 TCR (105% of the Air laid nonwoven fabrics manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Gastonia Plant TCR series: 2019=4.8 · 2021=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Gastonia Plant falls in its industry

191 Air laid nonwoven fabrics manu establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 42 Air laid nonwoven fabrics manu employers in North Carolina.

Gastonia Plant (88 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Gastonia Plant
Gastonia Plant (88 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Gastonia Plant has more employees than the Air laid nonwoven fabrics manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2021 2.1 1.1 2 0 0
2019 4.8 4.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

313230 · NC · Dallas

191 Air laid nonwoven fabrics manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 22 employers in Dallas, 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 Jones Fiber Products, Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR NPS Spill Control - Chicago 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR TUP 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hyman Brickle & Son, Inc. 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Public Utilities 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bayliss Boatworks Inc. 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE BU 3434 - I-40_I-77 Statesville, NC 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Young and McQueen Grading Company Inc 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston College 760 FTE
CITY-NEAR Store 146 168 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dixon Quick Coupling 136 FTE
CITY-NEAR Innovative Glass of America, Inc. 132 FTE
NAT-TCR ACC Programs and Administration 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Pure Wafer - San Jose 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Continental Hydraulics, Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Saco Office 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Molded Fiber Glass Companies/Texas LP 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1915-1100X 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Metal Coaters of Ohio 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pittsburgh Glass Works, LLC - Berea 88 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: 2021, 2019. 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.