Cotton spun yarns made from purchased fiber · South Carolina

Keer America Corporation

Fort Mill, SC · ~333 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities

The verdict

Keer America Corporation runs at 249% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cotton spun yarns made from purchased fiber workplace, earning a grade F.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.2
avg TCR · per 100 workers
3.3
industry benchmark (BLS)
116
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Keer America Corporation's OSHA Total Case Rate of 8.2 to the Cotton spun yarns made from purchased fiber BLS benchmark of 3.3 (249% of benchmark) across 7 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.

Injury rate over time

Keer America Corporation's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.

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Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 313110.

Where Keer America Corporation falls in its industry

200 Cotton spun yarns made from pu establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 12 Cotton spun yarns made from pu employers in South Carolina.

Trend analysis for Keer America Corporation

Between 2017 and 2024, Keer America Corporation's Total Case Rate improved from 16.5 to 4.3 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 74% decrease across 7 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2021, at a TCR of 3.8, while 2017 saw the highest rate, at 16.5, a spread of 12.8 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 7 reporting years, Keer America Corporation recorded 116 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 7-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 116 injuries, 10 illnesses shown on this page for Keer America Corporation are sourced from its own 7 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 313110 - Cotton spun yarns made from purchased fiber.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

13 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 751,920 hours worked = 3.46 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Keer America Corporation (this establishment) 8.21 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 7-year avg
Thread, all fibers, manufacturing industry avg 3.30 BLS IIF, NAICS 313110
South Carolina state avg (all industries) 4.08 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Keer America Corporation to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 4.3 3.5 14 2 0
2023 5.5 3.4 11 2 0
2021 3.8 2.6 10 0 0
2020 6.1 1.8 10 0 0
2019 9.4 3.8 27 3 0
2018 12.0 6.8 26 2 0
2017 16.5 3.5 18 1 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Keer America Corporation's reported OSHA injury record versus its Cotton spun yarns made from purchased fiber peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.

  • At 249% of the Cotton spun yarns made from purchased fiber benchmark, Keer America Corporation reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Cotton spun yarns made from purchased fiber sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Keer America Corporation's safety grade?
Keer America Corporation has a safety grade of F (Failing Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 8.2 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 3.3 for Cotton spun yarns made from purchased fiber.
How many injuries has Keer America Corporation reported?
Keer America Corporation has reported 116 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 7 years of OSHA data (2024, 2023, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.