Blood donor stations · North Carolina

Kedplasma - Gastonia

Gastonia, NC · ~35 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.7
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kedplasma - Gastonia runs at 282% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Blood donor stations workplace, earning a grade F.

Kedplasma - Gastonia: 10.7 TCR = 282% of Blood donor stations BLS 3.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kedplasma - Gastonia safety composite

Kedplasma - Gastonia scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Kedplasma - Gastonia: 0.0 → 23.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 23.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.08× in 2018

Kedplasma - Gastonia's TCR rose 23.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 23.2 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621991 · Gastonia, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.7 · 282% of ind

  • DART 11.6 DART
  • RANK #55/59
  • PHOTO Hayden, ID-Biolife 624
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hayden, ID-Biolife 624 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kedplasma - Gastonia in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kedplasma - Gastonia averages 10.7 TCR (282% of the Blood donor stations BLS benchmark).

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

Kedplasma - Gastonia TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=8.9 · 2018=23.2 · BLS 3.8

Where Kedplasma - Gastonia falls in its industry

1,713 Blood donor stations establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #55 safest of 59 Blood donor stations employers in North Carolina.

Kedplasma - Gastonia (35 employees, TCR 10.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kedplasma - Gastonia
Kedplasma - Gastonia (35 employees, TCR 10.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Kedplasma - Gastonia has fewer employees than the Blood donor stations median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2018 23.2 11.6 1 1 0
2017 8.9 0.0 3 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621991 · NC · Gastonia

1,713 Blood donor stations employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 182 employers in Gastonia, 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 Hayden, ID-Biolife 624 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Boise, ID-BioLife 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Great Falls, MT-BioLife 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mesa, AZ-Biolife 712 10.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Boykin Farms, Inc. 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE NEW COLONY SOW FARM 6276 -EST 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Goldsboro Field Services 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Butterball LLC Hatchery # 2 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston Memorial Hospital, Incorporated d/b/a CaroMont Regional Medical Center 3,156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston County Government 1,711 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wix Allen Plant 931 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gastonia Components and Logistics - Tulip 912 FTE
NAT-TCR Bismarck (Ndbis) 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR The Holmstad 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR POET Biorefining - Cloverdale LLC 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Mtr Technologies Inc. 10.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dallas (Carrollton) Dc 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Glaxo Smith Kline LLC RDC 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE 7100504 - ALT Olympus Chantilly 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE TMCo Inc 35 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.