Appliance hardware, metal, manufacturing · Georgia

Kason Industries Inc.

Newnan, GA · ~258 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kason Industries Inc. runs at 172% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Appliance hardware, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Kason Industries Inc.: 5.7 TCR = 172% of Appliance hardware, metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kason Industries Inc. safety composite

Kason Industries Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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

−0.7

2023→2024

Kason Industries Inc. injury rate improved

Kason Industries Inc.'s TCR fell 0.7 from 6.0 in 2023 to 5.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=6.0 · 2024=5.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332510 · Newnan, GA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 172% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO Titcomb Brothers Man…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~258 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Titcomb Brothers Manufacturing (0.1 TCR gap)

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Kason Industries Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kason Industries Inc. averages 5.7 TCR (172% of the Appliance hardware, metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kason Industries Inc. TCR series: 2023=6 · 2024=5.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Kason Industries Inc. falls in its industry

189 Appliance hardware, metal, man establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Appliance hardware, metal, man employers in Georgia.

Kason Industries Inc. (258 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kason Industries Inc.
Kason Industries Inc. (258 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Kason Industries Inc. has more employees than the Appliance hardware, metal, 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
2024 5.3 0.8 12 1 0
2023 6.0 1.6 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332510 · GA · Newnan

189 Appliance hardware, metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 147 employers in Newnan, GA · 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 Titcomb Brothers Manufacturing 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sunshine Metals - CA 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR C & S Manufacturing Corporation 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1017 Bahls St. 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE New South Construction Company, LLC 258 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vernay Manufacturing, Inc. 258 FTE
STATE-SIZE 011-00625 258 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6284-HL-AT 258 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - CSG1 2,498 FTE
CITY-NEAR Yamaha Motor Manufacturing Corporation 1,585 FTE
CITY-NEAR GA01 - Newnan Fulfillment Center 1,406 FTE
CITY-NEAR Piedmont Newnan Hospital 1,205 FTE
NAT-TCR Kslen - Lenexa 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Ncdur - Durham Center 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Nchik - Hickory Center 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Frenchy's Sausage Co, Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Laear - Earhart Package Centers 258 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chippewa River Industries 258 FTE
NAT-SIZE Milkco, Inc 258 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5855 Plant City Mdc 258 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.