Starch glues manufacturing · North Carolina

Greif (IP Kernersville - Adhesives)

Kernersville, NC · ~34 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Greif (IP Kernersville - Adhesives) runs at 132% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Starch glues manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Greif (IP Kernersville - Adhesives): 4.3 TCR = 132% of Starch glues manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Greif (IP Kernersville - Adhesives) safety composite

Greif (IP Kernersville - Adhesives) scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−13.0

2021→2023

Greif (IP Kernersville - Adhesives) injury rate improved

Greif (IP Kernersville - Adhesives)'s TCR fell 13.0 from 13.0 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 13.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=13.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325520 · Kernersville, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 132% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/12
  • PHOTO Eclectic Products, L…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Eclectic Products, LLC (Site 37) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Greif (IP Kernersville - Adhesives) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Greif (IP Kernersville - Adhesives) averages 4.3 TCR (132% of the Starch glues manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Greif (IP Kernersville - Adhesives) TCR series: 2021=13 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Greif (IP Kernersville - Adhesives) falls in its industry

287 Starch glues manufacturing establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 12 Starch glues manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

Greif (IP Kernersville - Adhesives) (34 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Greif (IP Kernersville - Adhesives)
Greif (IP Kernersville - Adhesives) (34 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Greif (IP Kernersville - Adhesives) has fewer employees than the Starch glues manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 13.0 9.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325520 · NC · Kernersville

287 Starch glues manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 93 employers in Kernersville, 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 Eclectic Products, LLC (Site 37) 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Canyon Stone - Ply Gem Stone 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 530 Industrial 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Master Builders Solutions - Mattawan 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jerry G. Williams & Sons, Inc. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2778 NC 50 South, Benson, NC 27504 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Frontier Natural Gas 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iredell Operations Center 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6458-GRNB 1,399 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - GSO1 968 FTE
CITY-NEAR 274 797 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Kernersville 782 FTE
NAT-TCR Dustcom Limited, Inc 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Saratoga Spa & Bath, Inc 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Hyatt House Washington DC / The Wharf 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Hendrick Medical Plaza 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE AL - Albuquerque 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Colorado Springs CS 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE ED - East Denver 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE EU - Eugene 34 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.