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

GKN Driveline

Sanford, NC · ~188 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

GKN Driveline runs at 52% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Drive shafts and half shafts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

GKN Driveline: 2.8 TCR = 52% of Drive shafts and half shafts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

GKN Driveline safety composite

GKN Driveline scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50%), 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).

D

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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

−2.5

2020→2023

GKN Driveline injury rate improved

GKN Driveline's TCR fell 2.5 from 4.6 in 2020 to 2.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 4.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=4.6 · 2021=1.5 · 2022=3.1 · 2023=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.8 · 52% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #13/17
  • PHOTO FTD
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~188 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FTD (0.1 TCR gap)

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GKN Driveline in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows GKN Driveline averages 2.8 TCR (52% 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 Driveline TCR series: 2020=4.6 · 2021=1.5 · 2022=3.1 · 2023=2.1 · BLS 5.4

Where GKN Driveline falls in its industry

320 Drive shafts and half shafts, establishments

Safer than 50% 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 #13 safest of 17 Drive shafts and half shafts, employers in North Carolina.

GKN Driveline (188 employees, TCR 2.8) 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 Driveline
GKN Driveline (188 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 200 employees and a TCR of 2.9

GKN Driveline has fewer 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
2023 2.1 0.7 2 1 0
2022 3.1 2.5 3 2 0
2021 1.5 1.5 3 0 0
2020 4.6 4.1 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336350 · NC · Sanford

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 · 121 employers in Sanford, 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 FTD 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR NTK Precision Axle Corp. Anderson 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Magna MPT Muncie 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jasper Weller, LLC - DBA Weller Truck Parts 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Garner Complex 188 FTE
STATE-SIZE Merritt Management Corp - Merritt Construction Services - NC 188 FTE
STATE-SIZE GA Solar Services 188 FTE
STATE-SIZE Funston Company 188 FTE
CITY-NEAR Coty US LLC 1,264 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pentair Sanford Hawkins Ave 937 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sanford, NC 772 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pentair Water Pool and Spa 768 FTE
NAT-TCR Milwaukee Valve Company LLC - Prairie du Sac - NIBCO 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR GP Production (Alabama) 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sacramento, CA 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Gray Trucking Inc 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mount Construction Inc. 188 FTE
NAT-SIZE R.O.W.C., L.L.C. 188 FTE
NAT-SIZE Asplundh Tree Expert Company 188 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rural Transit Enterprises Coordinated, Inc. (RTEC) 188 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, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.