Cotton battings (except nonwoven batting) manufacturing · South Carolina

Leigh Fibers LLC

Wellford, SC · ~99 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Leigh Fibers LLC runs at 152% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cotton battings (except nonwoven batting) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Leigh Fibers LLC: 5.0 TCR = 152% of Cotton battings (except nonwoven batting) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Leigh Fibers LLC safety composite

Leigh Fibers LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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).

F

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Leigh Fibers LLC: 4.8 → 5.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.84× in 2024

Leigh Fibers LLC's TCR rose 0.5 from 4.8 in 2023 to 5.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 314999 · Wellford, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 152% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO Industrial Fabrics B…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~99 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Industrial Fabrics Baton Rouge (0.1 TCR gap)

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Leigh Fibers LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Leigh Fibers LLC averages 5.0 TCR (152% of the Cotton battings (except nonwoven batting) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Leigh Fibers LLC TCR series: 2023=4.8 · 2024=5.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Leigh Fibers LLC falls in its industry

89 Cotton battings (except nonwov establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Cotton battings (except nonwov employers in South Carolina.

Leigh Fibers LLC (99 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 02004006008001,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Leigh Fibers LLC
Leigh Fibers LLC (99 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Leigh Fibers LLC has more employees than the Cotton battings (except nonwoven batting median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 5.3 4.2 5 0 0
2023 4.8 4.8 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

314999 · SC · Wellford

89 Cotton battings (except nonwoven batting) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 18 employers in Wellford, SC · 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 Industrial Fabrics Baton Rouge 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Coast Netting 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Artisans INC. 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR FlagZone LLC 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Coastal Asphalt 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greif (MG TAYLORS) 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE HTI @ Pendleton 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Duer / Carolina Coil 99 FTE
CITY-NEAR SEW Eurodrive Lyman Assembly 187 FTE
CITY-NEAR Freudenberg Filtration Technologies - Wellford, South Carolina 141 FTE
CITY-NEAR PPA Industries, Inc 119 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wellford 102 FTE
NAT-TCR American Mussel Harvesters Inc 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Prl Industries, Inc 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Leander Construction Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Creekside at Elfindale 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Legend Oaks Gladewater 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pepsi-Cola of Rock Island 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Winter Park 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giles Enterprises Inc 99 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.