Fabrics for reinforcing rubber tires, industrial belting, and fuel cells manufacturing · North Carolina

Kordsa Laurel Hill

Laurel Hill, NC · ~115 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kordsa Laurel Hill runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Fabrics for reinforcing rubber tires, industrial belting, and fuel cells manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Kordsa Laurel Hill: 2.9 TCR = 88% of Fabrics for reinforcing rubber tires, industrial belting, and fuel cells manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kordsa Laurel Hill safety composite

Kordsa Laurel Hill scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% 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).

D

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Kordsa Laurel Hill: 0.9 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 6.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.61× in 2024

Kordsa Laurel Hill's TCR rose 1.8 from 0.9 in 2016 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 314994 · Laurel Hill, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 88% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK P52
  • PHOTO Gastonia (FSFT)
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~115 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gastonia (FSFT) (0.1 TCR gap)

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Kordsa Laurel Hill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kordsa Laurel Hill averages 2.9 TCR (88% of the Fabrics for reinforcing rubber tires, industrial belting, and fuel cells manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kordsa Laurel Hill TCR series: 2016=0.9 · 2017=3.8 · 2018=6.5 · 2019=2 · 2020=3.2 · 2021=2.5 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Kordsa Laurel Hill falls in its industry

31 Fabrics for reinforcing rubber establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Kordsa Laurel Hill (115 employees, TCR 2.9) 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 Kordsa Laurel Hill
Kordsa Laurel Hill (115 employees, TCR 2.9) among 23 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 110 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Kordsa Laurel Hill has more employees than the Fabrics for reinforcing rubber tires, in 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 2.6 1.8 2 1 0
2023 1.5 1.5 2 0 0
2021 2.5 1.7 3 0 0
2020 3.2 1.1 3 0 0
2019 2.0 0.0 2 0 0
2018 6.5 3.3 3 3 0
2017 3.8 1.9 2 2 0
2016 0.9 0.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

314994 · NC · Laurel Hill

31 Fabrics for reinforcing rubber tires, industrial belting, and fuel cells manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 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 Gastonia (FSFT) 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hyosung USA Inc. 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Samson Ferndale WA 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR BlueWater Ropes 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Peak Resources-Alamance 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Litchford Falls Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Police Department 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lincolnton Rehabilitation Center 115 FTE
CITY-NEAR Laurel Hill Distribution Center 485 FTE
NAT-TCR Hood River Garbage 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR White Oaks Rehabilitation and Nursing Center 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Dowa THT America, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR CDI Services 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Crofton Diving Corporation 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Hills Ford 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lyntegar Electric Cooperative, Inc 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Beaverton Container 115 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, 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.