Textile products finishing · North Carolina

Kernersville Plant

Kernersville, NC · ~138 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kernersville Plant runs at 101% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Textile products finishing workplace, earning a grade C.

Kernersville Plant: 3.3 TCR = 101% of Textile products finishing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kernersville Plant safety composite

Kernersville Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

Kernersville Plant: 3.0 → 4.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 4.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.24× in 2024

Kernersville Plant's TCR rose 1.1 from 3.0 in 2020 to 4.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 313310 · Kernersville, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 101% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #18/32
  • PHOTO Barnhardt Manufactur…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~138 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Barnhardt Manufacturing Company Griswoldville Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kernersville Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kernersville Plant averages 3.3 TCR (101% of the Textile products finishing BLS benchmark).

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

Kernersville Plant TCR series: 2020=3 · 2021=4.2 · 2022=1.5 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Kernersville Plant falls in its industry

166 Textile products finishing establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 32 Textile products finishing employers in North Carolina.

Kernersville Plant (138 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 78 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 Kernersville Plant
Kernersville Plant (138 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 78 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Kernersville Plant has more employees than the Textile products finishing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 4.1 4.1 7 0 0
2023 3.8 2.3 5 0 0
2022 1.5 1.5 2 0 0
2021 4.2 3.3 5 0 0
2020 3.0 3.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

313310 · NC · Kernersville

166 Textile products finishing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 93 employers in Kernersville, 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 Barnhardt Manufacturing Company Griswoldville Plant 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kenyon Industries, Inc. 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jif Pak Manufacturing LLC 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brittany Global Technologies 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE WF Partnership 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4201 Auburn Church Rd 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE LEM Rural Hall 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heavy Grade 138 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6458-GRNB 1,399 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - GSO1 968 FTE
CITY-NEAR 274 797 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Kernersville 782 FTE
NAT-TCR Miami Valley Steel Service 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Jackson Dodds & Company, Inc. 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Vecellio & Grogan_Job# 1000208 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Fareway Stores, Inc. 049 Papillion 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE ARK Systems, Inc. 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE Poly Vinyl Co. 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE C&B Piping, Inc. 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corporation 138 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, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.