Powder metallurgy products manufactured on a job or order basis · North Carolina

Keystone Powdered Metal - Cherryville

Cherryville, NC · ~99 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Keystone Powdered Metal - Cherryville runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Powder metallurgy products manufactured on a job or order basis workplace, earning a grade C.

Keystone Powdered Metal - Cherryville: 2.7 TCR = 82% of Powder metallurgy products manufactured on a job or order basis BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Keystone Powdered Metal - Cherryville safety composite

Keystone Powdered Metal - Cherryville scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Keystone Powdered Metal - Cherryville: 0.0 → 2.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 5.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.28× in 2019

Keystone Powdered Metal - Cherryville's TCR rose 2.3 from 0.0 in 2016 to 2.3 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.8 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332117 · Cherryville, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 82% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #6/7
  • PHOTO SSI Sintered Special…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~99 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SSI Sintered Specialties, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Keystone Powdered Metal - Cherryville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Keystone Powdered Metal - Cherryville averages 2.7 TCR (82% of the Powder metallurgy products manufactured on a job or order basis BLS benchmark).

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

Keystone Powdered Metal - Cherryville TCR series: 2016=0 · 2018=5.8 · 2019=2.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Keystone Powdered Metal - Cherryville falls in its industry

151 Powder metallurgy products man establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 7 Powder metallurgy products man employers in North Carolina.

Keystone Powdered Metal - Cherryville (99 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 88 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Keystone Powdered Metal - Cherryville
Keystone Powdered Metal - Cherryville (99 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 88 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Keystone Powdered Metal - Cherryville has more employees than the Powder metallurgy products manufactured median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2019 2.3 0.8 3 0 0
2018 5.8 2.9 7 1 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332117 · NC · Cherryville

151 Powder metallurgy products manufactured on a job or order basis employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 24 employers in Cherryville, 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 SSI Sintered Specialties, LLC 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR MPP - Rockwood 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metal Powder Products - Ford Rd 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR DSB Technologies LLC 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE R.D. Graham Electric LLC 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Modern Mechanical HVAC LLC 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Elevator Company Inc. 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sealing Agents Waterproofing Inc 99 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0414 COX AUTOMOTIVE CORP SERVICES 300 COMMERCE DR 286 FTE
CITY-NEAR FleetNet America, Inc 256 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 4594 252 FTE
CITY-NEAR Farris fab 250 FTE
NAT-TCR R.H. White Companies 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0017 2676 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Comm HVAC NA and EMEA : SVC-Michigan District : SVC-Detroit Mi USA 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0020 3617 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Las Alcobas Napa Valley 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE 326 - Manassas 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE 054051-Lag-Aliso Viejo Carrier Anx 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Autumn Corporation 99 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: 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.