Drive shafts and half shafts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · North Carolina

GKN Alamance

Mebane, NC · ~912 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

GKN Alamance runs at 34% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Drive shafts and half shafts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

GKN Alamance: 1.8 TCR = 34% of Drive shafts and half shafts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

GKN Alamance safety composite

GKN Alamance scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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

−1.0

2016→2019

GKN Alamance injury rate improved

GKN Alamance's TCR fell 1.0 from 2.8 in 2016 to 1.8 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 2.8 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.8 · 2017=1.2 · 2018=1.6 · 2019=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336350 · Mebane, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.8 · 34% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #11/17
  • PHOTO Lugoff Plant
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 64 inj
  • SIZE ~912 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lugoff Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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GKN Alamance in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows GKN Alamance averages 1.8 TCR (34% of the Drive shafts and half shafts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

GKN Alamance TCR series: 2016=2.8 · 2017=1.2 · 2018=1.6 · 2019=1.8 · BLS 5.4

Where GKN Alamance falls in its industry

320 Drive shafts and half shafts, establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 17 Drive shafts and half shafts, employers in North Carolina.

GKN Alamance (912 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 200 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate GKN Alamance
GKN Alamance (912 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 200 employees and a TCR of 2.9

GKN Alamance has more employees than the Drive shafts and half shafts, automotive median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2019 1.8 1.0 16 0 0
2018 1.6 0.9 15 0 0
2017 1.2 0.9 12 0 0
2016 2.8 0.9 21 6 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336350 · NC · Mebane

320 Drive shafts and half shafts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 71 employers in Mebane, 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 Lugoff Plant 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Henderson Plant 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR ZF Findlay 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kelsey-Hayes Company-Fowlerville 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gastonia Components and Logistics - Tulip 912 FTE
STATE-SIZE Atrium Windows & Door 910 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corning - Concord Facility 910 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harrah's Cherokee Valley River Casino and Hotel 914 FTE
CITY-NEAR IS - MFG US - Mebane, NC 642 FTE
CITY-NEAR Industrial Solutions : IS - MFG US - Mebane, NC 642 FTE
CITY-NEAR Industrial Connections and Solutions LLC 620 FTE
CITY-NEAR NCBAN - MEBANE 600 FTE
NAT-TCR Strongville 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR WASH-WB 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ontario FS (SSS,SAT) 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Villa Florence 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Winter Park Resort 912 FTE
NAT-SIZE Albany Medical College 912 FTE
NAT-SIZE E00720-Pepperidge Farm Denver PA 912 FTE
NAT-SIZE Decostar 912 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: 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.