Oil seals manufacturing · North Carolina

Kaco USA, LLC

Lincolnton, NC · ~105 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kaco USA, LLC runs at 145% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Oil seals manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Kaco USA, LLC: 4.8 TCR = 145% of Oil seals manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kaco USA, LLC safety composite

Kaco USA, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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 4.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.3

2023→2024

Kaco USA, LLC injury rate improved

Kaco USA, LLC's TCR fell 4.3 from 6.9 in 2023 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=6.9 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339991 · Lincolnton, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 145% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #8/8
  • PHOTO Pres-On Corp
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~105 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pres-On Corp (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kaco USA, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kaco USA, LLC averages 4.8 TCR (145% of the Oil seals manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kaco USA, LLC TCR series: 2023=6.9 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Kaco USA, LLC falls in its industry

218 Oil seals manufacturing establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 8 Oil seals manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

Kaco USA, LLC (105 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 84 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Kaco USA, LLC
Kaco USA, LLC (105 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 84 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Kaco USA, LLC has more employees than the Oil seals manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 2.6 2.6 3 0 0
2023 6.9 3.5 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339991 · NC · Lincolnton

218 Oil seals manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 71 employers in Lincolnton, 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 Pres-On Corp 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR JBC Technologies Fitchburg 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Freudenberg-NOK 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seal & Design Inc 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE UFO-Utilities 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE Omega Construction, Inc. 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE Curtin Trucking and Drainage Inc. 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advance Concrete 105 FTE
CITY-NEAR RSI Home Products 769 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1109-Atrium Health Lincoln (1109) 672 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Woodmark Corporation 671 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0050-Atrium Health Lincoln 653 FTE
NAT-TCR USA Idaho Falls 2140 N Skyline Dr 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 001 Griffith IN 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Tailor Welded Blanks Innovation 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Primary Beef - Wyalusing PA 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gerrity's Supermarkets, Moosic 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE USA Nashville 121 Hangar Ct 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE USA Chicago 10255 West Zemke Blvd 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nashville Hauling 105 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. 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.