Aluminum die-casting foundries · North Carolina

Linamar Light Metals-MR

Mills River, NC · ~566 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Linamar Light Metals-MR runs at 183% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Aluminum die-casting foundries workplace, earning a grade D.

Linamar Light Metals-MR: 6.0 TCR = 183% of Aluminum die-casting foundries BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Linamar Light Metals-MR safety composite

Linamar Light Metals-MR scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

Linamar Light Metals-MR: 4.9 → 7.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.07× in 2023

Linamar Light Metals-MR's TCR rose 2.3 from 4.9 in 2022 to 7.2 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331523 · Mills River, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 183% of ind

  • DART 6.5 DART
  • RANK #6/7
  • PHOTO Imperial Die Casting
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 68 inj
  • SIZE ~566 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Imperial Die Casting (0.0 TCR gap)

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Linamar Light Metals-MR in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Linamar Light Metals-MR averages 6.0 TCR (183% of the Aluminum die-casting foundries BLS benchmark).

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

Linamar Light Metals-MR TCR series: 2022=4.9 · 2023=7.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Linamar Light Metals-MR falls in its industry

221 Aluminum die-casting foundries establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 7 Aluminum die-casting foundries employers in North Carolina.

Linamar Light Metals-MR (566 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Linamar Light Metals-MR
Linamar Light Metals-MR (566 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Linamar Light Metals-MR has more employees than the Aluminum die-casting foundries median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2023 7.2 6.5 39 1 0
2022 4.9 4.4 29 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331523 · NC · Mills River

221 Aluminum die-casting foundries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 33 employers in Mills River, 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 Imperial Die Casting 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trace Die Cast, Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cast-Rite Corporation 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR North Plant 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jabil Healthcare Asheville 566 FTE
STATE-SIZE O'Berry Neuro Medical Treatment Center 566 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6935-E-ENGINEERING AND PROPERTY MGMT 565 FTE
STATE-SIZE NC Disability Determination Services 565 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mills River 372 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPM Raflatac Mills River 280 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPM Raflatac, Inc 259 FTE
CITY-NEAR GF Linamar, LLC 242 FTE
NAT-TCR Landmark Cadillac, Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR BJC Acute 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #1845 Hermitage, TN 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Capitol Heights MD - Ashwood Dr 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE MRDNCT04 566 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oro Grande School District 566 FTE
NAT-SIZE Windom 566 FTE
NAT-SIZE American NTN Bearing MFG Corporation 566 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: 2023, 2022. 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.