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

Keystone Powdered Metal Company Cherryville, NC

Cherryville, NC · ~82 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Keystone Powdered Metal Company Cherryville, NC runs at 60% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Powder metallurgy products manufactured on a job or order basis workplace, earning a grade B.

Keystone Powdered Metal Company Cherryville, NC: 2.0 TCR = 60% of Powder metallurgy products manufactured on a job or order basis BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Keystone Powdered Metal Company Cherryville, NC safety composite

Keystone Powdered Metal Company Cherryville, NC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% 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).

C

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.0

2022→2023

Keystone Powdered Metal Company Cherryville, NC injury rate improved

Keystone Powdered Metal Company Cherryville, NC's TCR fell 4.0 from 4.0 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=4.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 60% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/7
  • PHOTO Phoenix Sintered Met…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~82 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Phoenix Sintered Metals, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Keystone Powdered Metal Company Cherryville, NC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Keystone Powdered Metal Company Cherryville, NC averages 2.0 TCR (60% 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 Company Cherryville, NC TCR series: 2022=4 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Keystone Powdered Metal Company Cherryville, NC falls in its industry

151 Powder metallurgy products man establishments

Safer than 72% 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 #3 safest of 7 Powder metallurgy products man employers in North Carolina.

Keystone Powdered Metal Company Cherryville, NC (82 employees, TCR 2.0) 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 Company Cherryville, NC
Keystone Powdered Metal Company Cherryville, NC (82 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 88 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Keystone Powdered Metal Company Cherryville, NC has fewer 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 4.0 0.0 3 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 Phoenix Sintered Metals, LLC 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coldwater Sintered Metal Products, Inc 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mott Corporation HQ 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR MPP - Washington Street 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Robert & Wade Glover Farms Inc. 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE SouthEnd Exteriors 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE CT Wilson Construction Company 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE JAMES L CAYTON ACCOCIATES INC 82 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 Bees Florida 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DJE6 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR DeShazo LLC 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CS Erickson 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Deseret Book Warehouse 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Johnson Machine Works 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jakes Electric, LLC 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heat Waves Hot Oil Service, LLC 82 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.