Fiber tubes made from purchased paperboard · North Carolina

Kernersville Tube Plant

Name: Kernersville Tube Plant Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Kernersville, NC · ~90 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 1.7
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Kernersville Tube Plant runs at 52% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Fiber tubes made from purchased paperboard workplace, earning a grade B.

Kernersville Tube Plant: 1.7 TCR = 52% of Fiber tubes made from purchased paperboard BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kernersville Tube Plant safety composite

Kernersville Tube Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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

−2.0

2016→2020

Kernersville Tube Plant injury rate improved

Kernersville Tube Plant's TCR fell 2.0 from 2.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.3 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.0 · 2017=3.3 · 2018=3.3 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322219 · Kernersville, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 52% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #1/6
PHOTO KY041 Bowling Green …
BOOK 5y book
INJ 8 inj
SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: KY041 Bowling Green (Dixie) (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Kernersville Tube Plant averages 1.7 TCR (52% of the Fiber tubes made from purchased paperboard BLS benchmark).

Kernersville Tube Plant TCR series: 2016=2 · 2017=3.3 · 2018=3.3 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Kernersville Tube Plant falls in its industry

140 Fiber tubes made from purchase establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 6 Fiber tubes made from purchase employers in North Carolina.

Kernersville Tube Plant (90 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Kernersville Tube Plant has more employees than the Fiber tubes made from purchased paperboa median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2020	0.0	0.0	0
2019	0.0	0.0	0
2018	3.3	0.0	3
2017	3.3	1.1	3
2016	2.0	1.0	2

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322219 · NC · Kernersville

140 Fiber tubes made from purchased paperboard 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	KY041 Bowling Green (Dixie)	BOWLING GREEN, KY	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Huhtamaki Batavia	BATAVIA, OH	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Huhtamaki	GOODYEAR, AZ	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Creative Converting	CLINTONVILLE, WI	1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Allen Steam Station	BELMONT	90 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Fayetteville Resource Center - PNG	FAYETTEVILLE	90 FTE
STATE-SIZE	D.R. Horton, Inc. - Raleigh	MORRISVILLE	90 FTE
STATE-SIZE	NJR Group Inc.	ALBEMARLE	90 FTE
CITY-NEAR	6458-GRNB	Kernersville	1,399 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Amazon.com Services LLC - GSO1	Kernersville	968 FTE
CITY-NEAR	274	Kernersville	797 FTE
CITY-NEAR	John Deere Kernersville	Kernersville	782 FTE
NAT-TCR	Foremost Farms - Milan	Athens, WI	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Columbus, OH Store	Columbus, OH	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Joy Global Underground Mining LLC- Meadow Lands	Houston, PA	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Our Lady of Life	St. Louis, MO	1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Aluminum Precision Products Oxnard	Oxnard, CA	90 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Indianhead Plating Inc.	Chippewa Falls, WI	90 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Anderson Technologies, Inc.	Grand Haven, MI	90 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Auto Safety House Phoenix	Phoenix, AZ	90 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.