Powder metallurgy products manufactured on a job or order basis · North Carolina

GKN Sinter metals Conover

Conover, NC · ~51 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

GKN Sinter metals Conover runs at 122% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Powder metallurgy products manufactured on a job or order basis workplace, earning a grade D.

GKN Sinter metals Conover: 4.0 TCR = 122% of Powder metallurgy products manufactured on a job or order basis BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

GKN Sinter metals Conover safety composite

GKN Sinter metals Conover scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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

GKN Sinter metals Conover: 2.0 → 6.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

GKN Sinter metals Conover's TCR rose 4.1 from 2.0 in 2022 to 6.1 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332117 · Conover, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 122% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/7
  • PHOTO ASCO
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ASCO (0.0 TCR gap)

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GKN Sinter metals Conover in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows GKN Sinter metals Conover averages 4.0 TCR (122% of the Powder metallurgy products manufactured on a job or order basis BLS benchmark).

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

GKN Sinter metals Conover TCR series: 2022=2 · 2023=6.1 · BLS 3.3

Where GKN Sinter metals Conover falls in its industry

151 Powder metallurgy products man establishments

Safer than 32% 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 #7 safest of 7 Powder metallurgy products man employers in North Carolina.

GKN Sinter metals Conover (51 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 88 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate GKN Sinter metals Conover
GKN Sinter metals Conover (51 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 88 employees and a TCR of 2.9

GKN Sinter metals Conover has fewer employees than the Powder metallurgy products manufactured median and a higher 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 6.1 0.0 3 0 0
2022 2.0 0.0 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332117 · NC · Conover

151 Powder metallurgy products manufactured on a job or order basis employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 95 employers in Conover, 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 ASCO 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mi Tech Tungsten Metals LLC 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Proform Powdered Metals 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR MPP - Noblesville 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hawksridge Farms, Inc 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Burlington Operations Center 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE DRB Group North Carolina LLC - Charlotte Division 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE All other sites Gastonia 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR Zenith - Conover 409 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 4224 369 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4224 327 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2510 Conover Folding 309 FTE
NAT-TCR Tampa Airport 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Shima'S Market 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Brandon Wilde 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Raley's 316-Pleasanton 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Arlington, Tx Hexacomb 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Denark Construction, Inc. 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE NEDC 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE George Sherman Corporation 51 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. 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.