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

GKN Automotive- Alamance

Mebane, NC · ~507 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

GKN Automotive- Alamance runs at 28% 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 Automotive- Alamance: 1.5 TCR = 28% of Drive shafts and half shafts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

GKN Automotive- Alamance safety composite

GKN Automotive- Alamance scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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

−0.8

2022→2024

GKN Automotive- Alamance injury rate improved

GKN Automotive- Alamance's TCR fell 0.8 from 1.9 in 2022 to 1.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 1.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=1.9 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 28% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #10/17
  • PHOTO Hillside 3
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~507 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hillside 3 (0.0 TCR gap)

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GKN Automotive- Alamance in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows GKN Automotive- Alamance averages 1.5 TCR (28% 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 Automotive- Alamance TCR series: 2022=1.9 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=1.1 · BLS 5.4

Where GKN Automotive- Alamance falls in its industry

320 Drive shafts and half shafts, establishments

Safer than 75% 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 #10 safest of 17 Drive shafts and half shafts, employers in North Carolina.

GKN Automotive- Alamance (507 employees, TCR 1.5) 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 Automotive- Alamance
GKN Automotive- Alamance (507 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 200 employees and a TCR of 2.9

GKN Automotive- 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
2024 1.1 0.6 7 0 0
2023 1.5 0.2 7 0 0
2022 1.9 0.7 8 0 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 Hillside 3 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oerlikon Friction Systems (US) Inc 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sterling Plant 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ellington Drive, Conyers 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 5160 Winston Salem Manufacturing 507 FTE
STATE-SIZE NC_Greensboro_721-A N Regional Rd Lot #2A_0AGR3150 507 FTE
STATE-SIZE Region 056 506 FTE
STATE-SIZE Field 508 FTE
CITY-NEAR GKN Alamance 912 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
NAT-TCR C&S Machine Products, Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Corteva 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Construction 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Tiff's Treats - H12 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Macom Technology Solutions 507 FTE
NAT-SIZE Empire Merchants, LLC - Astoria 507 FTE
NAT-SIZE Highlands ARH Regional Medical Center 507 FTE
NAT-SIZE Translogic Corporation dba Swisslog Healthcare 507 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: 2024, 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.