Industrial salt manufacturing · North Carolina

Giles Chemical Repack Facility

Waynesville, NC · ~157 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Giles Chemical Repack Facility runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Industrial salt manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Giles Chemical Repack Facility: 6.3 TCR = 192% of Industrial salt manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Giles Chemical Repack Facility safety composite

Giles Chemical Repack Facility scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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).

F

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Giles Chemical Repack Facility: 4.2 → 8.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 8.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.94× in 2021

Giles Chemical Repack Facility's TCR rose 4.2 from 4.2 in 2020 to 8.4 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325998 · Waynesville, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 192% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #16/20
  • PHOTO Lubrication Specialt…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~157 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lubrication Specialties (0.0 TCR gap)

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Giles Chemical Repack Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Giles Chemical Repack Facility averages 6.3 TCR (192% of the Industrial salt manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Giles Chemical Repack Facility TCR series: 2020=4.2 · 2021=8.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Giles Chemical Repack Facility falls in its industry

485 Industrial salt manufacturing establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 20 Industrial salt manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

Giles Chemical Repack Facility (157 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Giles Chemical Repack Facility
Giles Chemical Repack Facility (157 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Giles Chemical Repack Facility has more employees than the Industrial salt manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 8.4 6.0 16 1 0
2020 4.2 1.2 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325998 · NC · Waynesville

485 Industrial salt manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 45 employers in Waynesville, 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 Lubrication Specialties 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Security Signals, Inc. 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR D.D. Bean & Sons Co. 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Florida CirTech - Greeley 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Highland 157 FTE
STATE-SIZE JPS Composite Materials Corporation 157 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wm. T. Burnett & Co., Nonwovens Division - Statesville 157 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gate Precast Company 157 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1663 390 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1663 363 FTE
CITY-NEAR Evergreen Packaging - Waynesville 213 FTE
CITY-NEAR Store 023 202 FTE
NAT-TCR Riverside Walter Reed Hospital 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Metalor Refining USA 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Manufacturing 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 0600 - Lacey IW 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE ITW Automotive Body & Fuel 157 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kelly-Moore Paint Co Hurst 157 FTE
NAT-SIZE Forum Energy Technologies - Stafford 157 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coleman - GRKS 157 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, 2020. 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.