Foam polystyrene products manufacturing · North Carolina

IWT - Salisbury

Salisbury, NC · ~23 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

IWT - Salisbury runs at 254% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Foam polystyrene products manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

IWT - Salisbury: 8.4 TCR = 254% of Foam polystyrene products manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

IWT - Salisbury safety composite

IWT - Salisbury scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

IWT - Salisbury: 4.7 → 8.1 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 13.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.97× in 2021

IWT - Salisbury's TCR rose 3.4 from 4.7 in 2016 to 8.1 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 13.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326140 · Salisbury, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.4 · 254% of ind

  • DART 8.1 DART
  • RANK #9/9
  • PHOTO Storopack, Inc. - Wi…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Storopack, Inc. - Winston Salem (0.0 TCR gap)

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IWT - Salisbury in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows IWT - Salisbury averages 8.4 TCR (254% of the Foam polystyrene products manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

IWT - Salisbury TCR series: 2016=4.7 · 2017=7.7 · 2018=3.6 · 2019=12.5 · 2020=13.6 · 2021=8.1 · BLS 3.3

Where IWT - Salisbury falls in its industry

260 Foam polystyrene products manu establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

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 9 Foam polystyrene products manu employers in North Carolina.

IWT - Salisbury (23 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 IWT - Salisbury
IWT - Salisbury (23 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.1

IWT - Salisbury has fewer employees than the Foam polystyrene products manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2021 8.1 8.1 2 0 0
2020 13.6 9.1 3 0 0
2019 12.5 8.3 3 0 0
2018 3.6 3.6 1 0 0
2017 7.7 0.0 2 0 0
2016 4.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326140 · NC · Salisbury

260 Foam polystyrene products manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 180 employers in Salisbury, 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 Storopack, Inc. - Winston Salem 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR R.L. Adams Plastics, Inc. 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fort Worth 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Foam Fabricators 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farm 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE SOUTHERN PINES 1 SOW -EST 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cotton Gin 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monroe Growout 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR CSCEXC 1,314 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Rowan Medical Center 1,176 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rowan County Government 1,151 FTE
CITY-NEAR CLT1 973 FTE
NAT-TCR SDO - Sharon 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hotel Santa Barbara 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sedano's Supermarket #21 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cana Cabinetry 8.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE De Snayer Dairy 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stryker Instruments 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bayamon Betances 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE CSS Farms - Cody 23 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.