Cotton ginning · North Carolina

Kinston Fibers

Kinston, NC · ~13 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
0.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kinston Fibers runs at 0% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cotton ginning workplace, earning a grade C.

Kinston Fibers: 0.0 TCR = 0% of Cotton ginning BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kinston Fibers safety composite

Kinston Fibers scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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%).

Kinston Fibers held a steady TCR band

Kinston Fibers's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 0.0 TCR.

2016=0.0 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115111 · Kinston, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 0.0 · 0% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #0/5
  • PHOTO Farmers Gin & Peanut…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~13 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Farmers Gin & Peanut Co., Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Kinston Fibers in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kinston Fibers averages 0.0 TCR (0% of the Cotton ginning BLS benchmark).

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

Kinston Fibers TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Kinston Fibers falls in its industry

194 Cotton ginning establishments

Safer than 100% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #0 safest of 5 Cotton ginning employers in North Carolina.

Kinston Fibers (13 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 102030405060 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Kinston Fibers
Kinston Fibers (13 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Kinston Fibers has fewer employees than the Cotton ginning median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115111 · NC · Kinston

194 Cotton ginning employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 86 employers in Kinston, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Farmers Gin & Peanut Co., Inc. 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR M.A.D.H. GIN, INC. 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Miller County Gin Company 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Henry County Gin 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Harvey Produce 13 FTE
STATE-SIZE Super-Sod Cary 13 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pitt County Gin 13 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anderson Farms 13 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sanderson Farms Kinston Processing 1,564 FTE
CITY-NEAR Caswell Developmental Center 1,256 FTE
CITY-NEAR UNC Lenoir Health Care 843 FTE
CITY-NEAR UNC Health Lenoir 744 FTE
NAT-TCR Creekside 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Point32Health Quincy 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Point32Health Providence 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Matt Bowers Ford Metairie 0.0 TCR

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, 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.