Knitting lace · North Carolina

Hatch Plant

Columbus, NC · ~61 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Hatch Plant runs at 25% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Knitting lace workplace, earning a grade A.

Hatch Plant: 0.8 TCR = 25% of Knitting lace BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hatch Plant safety composite

Hatch Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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%).

Hatch Plant held a steady TCR band

Hatch Plant's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2018=3.3 · 2019=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 313240 · Columbus, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 25% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/11
  • PHOTO Domestic Fabrics & B…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~61 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Domestic Fabrics & Blankets, Corp. (0.1 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · North Carolina employers → · Look up another →

Hatch Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hatch Plant averages 0.8 TCR (25% of the Knitting lace BLS benchmark).

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

Hatch Plant TCR series: 2016=0 · 2018=3.3 · 2019=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Hatch Plant falls in its industry

41 Knitting lace establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 11 Knitting lace employers in North Carolina.

Hatch Plant (61 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Hatch Plant
Hatch Plant (61 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Hatch Plant has more employees than the Knitting lace median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 3.3 0.0 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

313240 · NC · Columbus

41 Knitting lace employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 17 employers in Columbus, 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 Domestic Fabrics & Blankets, Corp. 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Beverly Knits 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Milliken Gilliland Plant 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advanced Textile Composites Inc 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE H. F. Lee Energy Complex 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Winston Salem Resource Center - PNG 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charlotte Division 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE WESTFIELD REHABILITATION AND HEALTH CENTER 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Luke's Hospital 308 FTE
CITY-NEAR ACTS Retirement-Life Communities - Tryon Estates 233 FTE
CITY-NEAR ACTS Retirement-Life Communities-Tryon Estates 141 FTE
CITY-NEAR Milliken Hatch 77 FTE
NAT-TCR Nuvera Fuel Cells, LLC 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Griggs Mitchell & Alma of IL, LLC 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Smurfit Kappa Longview 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR South Florida Land Clearing, Inc 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Aperion Care Burbank 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE 202 Las Vegas 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE 180 Mesa 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE 140 Sarasota 61 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, 2019, 2018, 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.