Excavators (e.g., power shovels) manufacturing · North Carolina

John Deere Kernersville

Kernersville, NC · ~782 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

John Deere Kernersville runs at 35% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Excavators (e.g., power shovels) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

John Deere Kernersville: 1.1 TCR = 35% of Excavators (e.g., power shovels) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

John Deere Kernersville safety composite

John Deere Kernersville scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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%).

John Deere Kernersville held a steady TCR band

John Deere Kernersville's TCR held near 0.1 from 1.1 in 2022 to 1.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 1.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=1.1 · 2023=1.2 · 2024=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333120 · Kernersville, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 35% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #5/12
  • PHOTO Terex - Waverly
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~782 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Terex - Waverly (0.0 TCR gap)

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John Deere Kernersville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows John Deere Kernersville averages 1.1 TCR (35% of the Excavators (e.g., power shovels) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

John Deere Kernersville TCR series: 2022=1.1 · 2023=1.2 · 2024=1.1 · BLS 3.3

Where John Deere Kernersville falls in its industry

400 Excavators (e.g., power shovel establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 12 Excavators (e.g., power shovel employers in North Carolina.

John Deere Kernersville (782 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate John Deere Kernersville
John Deere Kernersville (782 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 4.0

John Deere Kernersville has more employees than the Excavators (e.g., power shovels) manufac median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 1.1 0.9 7 0 0
2023 1.2 0.3 10 0 0
2022 1.1 0.4 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333120 · NC · Kernersville

400 Excavators (e.g., power shovels) 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 Terex - Waverly 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR LaGrange Facility 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Roanoke 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ballantine 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE TBB - North Campus 781 FTE
STATE-SIZE AV-Aviation 781 FTE
STATE-SIZE Caldwell Memorial Hospital 781 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cary Manufacturing Facility - KNA 780 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6458-GRNB 1,399 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - GSO1 968 FTE
CITY-NEAR 274 797 FTE
CITY-NEAR Deere-Hitachi Construction Machinery Corp 744 FTE
NAT-TCR RLCC Elementary 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Webster 10548 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Children's Hospital of Philadelphia 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Regional Care Inc 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Loews Royal Pacific Resort 782 FTE
NAT-SIZE Paris Regional Medical Center 782 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jasper Products, LLC 782 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of San Bernardino 782 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, 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.