Ball and Roller Bearing Manufacturing · North Carolina

Lincolnton

Iron Station, NC · ~608 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lincolnton runs at 65% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Ball and Roller Bearing Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Lincolnton: 2.2 TCR = 65% of Ball and Roller Bearing Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lincolnton safety composite

Lincolnton scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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)
C 2.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.9

2016→2024

Lincolnton injury rate improved

Lincolnton's TCR fell 0.9 from 3.1 in 2016 to 2.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.1 · 2017=2.0 · 2018=1.6 · 2019=1.4 · 2020=1.1 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=2.0 · 2024=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332991 · Iron Station, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 65% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #6/8
  • PHOTO thyssenkrupp Rothe E…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 112 inj
  • SIZE ~608 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: thyssenkrupp Rothe Erde USA Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lincolnton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lincolnton averages 2.2 TCR (65% of the Ball and Roller Bearing Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Lincolnton TCR series: 2016=3.1 · 2017=2 · 2018=1.6 · 2019=1.4 · 2020=1.1 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=2 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Lincolnton falls in its industry

125 Ball and Roller Bearing Manufa establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

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 8 Ball and Roller Bearing Manufa employers in North Carolina.

Lincolnton (608 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Lincolnton
Lincolnton (608 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Lincolnton has more employees than the Ball and Roller Bearing Manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 2.3 1.3 14 0 0
2023 2.0 0.5 13 0 0
2022 3.5 1.6 18 4 0
2021 2.5 1.7 15 0 0
2020 1.1 0.6 5 0 0
2019 1.4 0.0 8 0 0
2018 1.6 1.1 9 1 0
2017 2.0 1.9 13 0 0
2016 3.1 3.0 17 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332991 · NC · Iron Station

125 Ball and Roller Bearing Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 3 employers in Iron Station, 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 thyssenkrupp Rothe Erde USA Inc 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR TN-Tennessee, LLC. 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR JTEKT North America 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR NTN Bower Corporation 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE FAYETTEVILLE PDCA 608 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kewaunee Scientific Corporation 608 FTE
STATE-SIZE Market America, Inc 608 FTE
STATE-SIZE Continental Automotive Systems 610 FTE
CITY-NEAR Timken Iron Station 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR 30815 STORE 30815 25 FTE
NAT-TCR Washington, DC 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Complete Mechanical Services, LLC. 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Cook/Jackson Company 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Lockheed Martin Corporation Santa Cruz Campus (1574) 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Chino Distribution Center 608 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Chemours Company FC, LLC - Washington Works 608 FTE
NAT-SIZE Benchmark Human Services - Corporate 608 FTE
NAT-SIZE Indorama Ventures Oxides, LLC 608 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, 2022, 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.