Tire cord · North Carolina

Kings Mountain (FSFT)

Kings Mountain, NC · ~296 workers · 9 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

Kings Mountain (FSFT) runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Tire cord workplace, earning a grade B.

Kings Mountain (FSFT): 2.0 TCR = 62% of Tire cord BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kings Mountain (FSFT) safety composite

Kings Mountain (FSFT) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% 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).

C

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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

−1.4

2016→2024

Kings Mountain (FSFT) injury rate improved

Kings Mountain (FSFT)'s TCR fell 1.4 from 3.3 in 2016 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.3 · 2017=0.4 · 2018=2.0 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=1.8 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 314994 · Kings Mountain, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 62% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK P68
  • PHOTO Bekaert Rogers
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 56 inj
  • SIZE ~296 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bekaert Rogers (0.3 TCR gap)

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Kings Mountain (FSFT) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kings Mountain (FSFT) averages 2.0 TCR (62% of the Tire cord BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Kings Mountain (FSFT) TCR series: 2016=3.3 · 2017=0.4 · 2018=2 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=1.8 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Kings Mountain (FSFT) falls in its industry

31 Tire cord establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Kings Mountain (FSFT) (296 employees, TCR 2.0) among 23 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 110 employees and a TCR of 3.3 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 24 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 0200400600800 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Kings Mountain (FSFT)
Kings Mountain (FSFT) (296 employees, TCR 2.0) among 23 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 110 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Kings Mountain (FSFT) has more employees than the Tire cord median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 1.9 1.6 6 0 0
2023 3.6 3.3 11 0 0
2022 1.8 1.3 7 0 0
2021 1.4 1.1 4 0 0
2020 2.4 2.0 7 0 0
2019 1.6 1.3 5 0 0
2018 2.0 1.4 6 0 0
2017 0.4 0.4 1 0 0
2016 3.3 2.6 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

314994 · NC · Kings Mountain

31 Tire cord employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 64 employers in Kings Mountain, 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 Bekaert Rogers 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR BlueWater Ropes 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Equibrand Products Group LP 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Samson - Lafayette 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE 0010-CHS Kings Mountain 296 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4334 296 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1694 296 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 6840 296 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hanesbrands, Inc. Cleveland Distribution Center 515 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6903_15950 397 FTE
CITY-NEAR KINGS MOUNTAIN NC 370 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hanesbrands, Inc. Canterbury Distribution Center 368 FTE
NAT-TCR Patson Inc.- Gary 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Home 2 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ahern Fond du Lac - Corporate 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Wired Communications, LLC 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE East Penn Corydon 296 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate Office 296 FTE
NAT-SIZE Miami Branch 296 FTE
NAT-SIZE L&W Engineering, Inc. 296 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, 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.