Converting textiles · North Carolina

HUESKER Inc. Plant

Shelby, NC · ~30 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HUESKER Inc. Plant runs at 243% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Converting textiles workplace, earning a grade F.

HUESKER Inc. Plant: 8.0 TCR = 243% of Converting textiles BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HUESKER Inc. Plant safety composite

HUESKER Inc. Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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).

F

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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%).

Rising injury rate

HUESKER Inc. Plant: 0.0 → 16.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 16.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.4× in 2024

HUESKER Inc. Plant's TCR rose 16.0 from 0.0 in 2022 to 16.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 313310 · Shelby, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.0 · 243% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #29/32
  • PHOTO Jones Family of Comp…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jones Family of Companies (0.0 TCR gap)

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HUESKER Inc. Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HUESKER Inc. Plant averages 8.0 TCR (243% of the Converting textiles BLS benchmark).

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

HUESKER Inc. Plant TCR series: 2022=0 · 2024=16 · BLS 3.3

Where HUESKER Inc. Plant falls in its industry

166 Converting textiles establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 32 Converting textiles employers in North Carolina.

HUESKER Inc. Plant (30 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 78 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate HUESKER Inc. Plant
HUESKER Inc. Plant (30 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 78 employees and a TCR of 3.2

HUESKER Inc. Plant has fewer employees than the Converting textiles median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 16.0 3.2 5 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

313310 · NC · Shelby

166 Converting textiles employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 100 employers in Shelby, 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 Jones Family of Companies 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kleentech 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR NORFAB 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Budge Industries, LLC 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Shugart Farm 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hays Hatchery 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hight Family Farms LLC 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE High Point Operations Center 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1111-Atrium Health Cleveland (1111) 1,174 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6070 1,160 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0080-Atrium Health Cleveland 1,158 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0080-CHS Cleveland 1,093 FTE
NAT-TCR Boekel Industries, Inc 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Merit Health River Region 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Precast - SC Plant 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kingwood TX 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rominger Brothers Farms 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Bungalows at Mayfield 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Americold Logistics, LLC: Johnson 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Americold Logistics, LLC: Springdale 30 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, 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.