Sheeting, rubber, manufacturing · North Carolina

K-Flex USA LLC

Youngsville, NC · ~264 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

K-Flex USA LLC runs at 59% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Sheeting, rubber, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

K-Flex USA LLC: 1.9 TCR = 59% of Sheeting, rubber, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

K-Flex USA LLC safety composite

K-Flex USA LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% 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).

C

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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%).

K-Flex USA LLC held a steady TCR band

K-Flex USA LLC's TCR held near 0.3 from 1.0 in 2016 to 0.8 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 3.1 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.0 · 2019=2.9 · 2021=3.1 · 2022=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326299 · Youngsville, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 59% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #2/8
  • PHOTO Cooper-Standard New …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~264 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cooper-Standard New Philadelphia 2228 (0.0 TCR gap)

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K-Flex USA LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows K-Flex USA LLC averages 1.9 TCR (59% of the Sheeting, rubber, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

K-Flex USA LLC TCR series: 2016=1 · 2019=2.9 · 2021=3.1 · 2022=0.8 · BLS 3.3

Where K-Flex USA LLC falls in its industry

257 Sheeting, rubber, manufacturin establishments

Safer than 79% 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 8 Sheeting, rubber, manufacturin employers in North Carolina.

K-Flex USA LLC (264 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate K-Flex USA LLC
K-Flex USA LLC (264 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.6

K-Flex USA LLC has more employees than the Sheeting, rubber, manufacturing 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
2022 0.8 0.8 2 0 0
2021 3.1 2.7 8 0 0
2019 2.9 1.3 11 0 0
2016 1.0 0.5 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326299 · NC · Youngsville

257 Sheeting, rubber, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 37 employers in Youngsville, 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 Cooper-Standard New Philadelphia 2228 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shin-Etsu Silicones of America, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Pharmaceutical Services 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Essentra 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lennar Charlotte/Greenville 264 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brakebush Mocksville 264 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bakkavor Charlotte 264 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bekaert Deslee 264 FTE
CITY-NEAR K-Flex USA, L.L.C. 270 FTE
CITY-NEAR Xerium Technologies Corporate 154 FTE
CITY-NEAR YOUNGSVILLE RALEIGH NC 149 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amcor Rigid Packaging 148 FTE
NAT-TCR State Electric Corporation 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR FC - Idaho Falls 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Elim Care Center 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Centennial Plant 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Puerto Rico 264 FTE
NAT-SIZE Toray Advanced Composites 264 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sherco Gen Plant-LN 264 FTE
NAT-SIZE 109 - Ft. Myers 264 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: 2022, 2021, 2019, 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.