Aluminum castings (except die-castings), unfinished, manufacturing · North Carolina

KSM Castings USA, Inc

Shelby, NC · ~189 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

KSM Castings USA, Inc runs at 169% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Aluminum castings (except die-castings), unfinished, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

KSM Castings USA, Inc: 5.6 TCR = 169% of Aluminum castings (except die-castings), unfinished, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KSM Castings USA, Inc safety composite

KSM Castings USA, Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

KSM Castings USA, Inc: 5.1 → 5.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 6.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.84× in 2021

KSM Castings USA, Inc's TCR rose 0.7 from 5.1 in 2016 to 5.8 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331524 · Shelby, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 169% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Juniata
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 40 inj
  • SIZE ~189 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Juniata (0.0 TCR gap)

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KSM Castings USA, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows KSM Castings USA, Inc averages 5.6 TCR (169% of the Aluminum castings (except die-castings), unfinished, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

KSM Castings USA, Inc TCR series: 2016=5.1 · 2018=6.8 · 2019=4.5 · 2021=5.8 · BLS 3.3

Where KSM Castings USA, Inc falls in its industry

156 Aluminum castings (except die- establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Aluminum castings (except die- employers in North Carolina.

KSM Castings USA, Inc (189 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 7.0 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 02004006008001,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate KSM Castings USA, Inc
KSM Castings USA, Inc (189 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 7.0

KSM Castings USA, Inc has more employees than the Aluminum castings (except die-castings), median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.0. 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
2021 5.8 4.7 15 0 0
2019 4.5 2.3 7 1 0
2018 6.8 4.0 11 1 0
2016 5.1 5.1 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331524 · NC · Shelby

156 Aluminum castings (except die-castings), unfinished, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 100 employers in Shelby, 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 Juniata 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Aluminum, Conneaut 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR MORRIS BEAN & COMPANY 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR AlCuMet Inc. 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mechanical Contractors Inc. 189 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Agents Companies 189 FTE
STATE-SIZE Morinaga America Foods, Inc. 189 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northampton Peanut Company 189 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1111-Atrium Health Cleveland (1111) 1,174 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6070 1,160 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0080-Atrium Health Cleveland 1,158 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0080-CHS Cleveland 1,093 FTE
NAT-TCR Amigo Farms, Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Tennessee Aluminum Processors 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Midwestern Mechanical - Rapid 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Jackson PDC 34 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Carroll County Memorial Hospital 189 FTE
NAT-SIZE G.J. Hopkins 189 FTE
NAT-SIZE El Dorado Chemical Company 189 FTE
NAT-SIZE Immanuel Fontenelle 189 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: 2021, 2019, 2018, 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.