Ceramic kilns and furnaces manufacturing · North Carolina

Kanthal

Concord, NC · ~63 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kanthal runs at 136% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ceramic kilns and furnaces manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Kanthal: 4.5 TCR = 136% of Ceramic kilns and furnaces manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kanthal safety composite

Kanthal scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Kanthal: 1.7 → 7.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.61× in 2023

Kanthal's TCR rose 5.5 from 1.7 in 2022 to 7.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333994 · Concord, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 136% of ind

  • DART 7.3 DART
  • RANK P40
  • PHOTO Precision Thermal Pr…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Precision Thermal Processing (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kanthal in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kanthal averages 4.5 TCR (136% of the Ceramic kilns and furnaces manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kanthal TCR series: 2022=1.7 · 2023=7.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Kanthal falls in its industry

103 Ceramic kilns and furnaces man establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Kanthal (63 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kanthal
Kanthal (63 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Kanthal has fewer employees than the Ceramic kilns and furnaces manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2023 7.3 7.3 1 3 0
2022 1.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333994 · NC · Concord

103 Ceramic kilns and furnaces manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 338 employers in Concord, 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 Precision Thermal Processing 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Perceptive Industries Inc 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR TPI Corporation 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR International Thermal Systems 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Smith Energy Complex 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Union Power Cooperative - Oakboro 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Asheboro Office 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE SOUTH DURHAM OPERATIONS 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1114-Atrium Health Cabarrus (1114) 3,087 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0070-CHS NorthEast 2,949 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0070-Atrium Health Cabarrus 2,870 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CLT3 1,263 FTE
NAT-TCR ALT-ODFL 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Richland, Wa - 143 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Atlanta 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Rountree Glass Co 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brunswick - Bath Rd. 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Optical Cable Corporation Plano 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thermo Fisher Scientific (Milwaukee) LLC 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Petersburg Family YMCA 63 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: 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.