Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing · North Carolina

Kamps Charlotte Plant 2

Charlotte, NC · ~45 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Kamps Charlotte Plant 2 runs at 195% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Kamps Charlotte Plant 2: 6.5 TCR = 195% of Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kamps Charlotte Plant 2 safety composite

Kamps Charlotte Plant 2 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 46%), 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).

D

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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

Kamps Charlotte Plant 2: 3.1 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 12.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.57× in 2021

Kamps Charlotte Plant 2's TCR rose 1.8 from 3.1 in 2017 to 4.9 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 12.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321920 · Charlotte, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 195% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #30/42
  • PHOTO O'Malley Timber Prod…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: O'Malley Timber Products (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · North Carolina employers → · Look up another →

Kamps Charlotte Plant 2 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kamps Charlotte Plant 2 averages 6.5 TCR (195% of the Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kamps Charlotte Plant 2 TCR series: 2017=3.1 · 2018=12.9 · 2019=9.4 · 2020=1.9 · 2021=4.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Kamps Charlotte Plant 2 falls in its industry

952 Pallets, wood or wood and meta establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 42 Pallets, wood or wood and meta employers in North Carolina.

Kamps Charlotte Plant 2 (45 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Kamps Charlotte Plant 2
Kamps Charlotte Plant 2 (45 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3

Kamps Charlotte Plant 2 has fewer employees than the Pallets, wood or wood and metal combinat median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.3. 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
2021 4.9 3.7 4 0 0
2020 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2019 9.4 7.5 5 0 0
2018 12.9 9.7 4 0 0
2017 3.1 3.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321920 · NC · Charlotte

952 Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 2,058 employers in Charlotte, 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 O'Malley Timber Products 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR APACHE PRODUCTS INC 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Millwood Inc. - South River 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pallet Distributors Inc Dba Epallet Inc Sugarcreek 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Happy Holiday Christmas Trees 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cracon, Inc. 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE GOMEZ HARVESTING 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lewisville Operations Center 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1101-Carolinas Medical Center (1101) 8,444 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0001-Carolinas Medical Center 8,032 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4795-AA-CLT-CHARLOTTE-CLT-TRML 7,295 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center 4,973 FTE
NAT-TCR Ryan Plumbing, Heating, A/C & Fire Protection 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Straw Construction Office and Yard 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Rudolph Foods New Hebron Plant 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 4769-6223-Pottery Barn 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Denney Electric Supply of Ambler 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Drury Plaza Hotel - Milwaukee Downtown 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE MT - Sacramento 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE John Jay Elementary School 45 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.