Fabrics, nonwoven, manufacturing · North Carolina

Linwood/Lexington

Linwood, NC · ~201 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Linwood/Lexington runs at 18% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Fabrics, nonwoven, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Linwood/Lexington: 0.6 TCR = 18% of Fabrics, nonwoven, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Linwood/Lexington safety composite

Linwood/Lexington scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% 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%).

Linwood/Lexington held a steady TCR band

Linwood/Lexington's TCR held near 0.2 from 0.9 in 2018 to 1.1 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=0.9 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.4 · 2021=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 313230 · Linwood, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 18% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #3/42
  • PHOTO VITECH Manufacturing…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~201 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: VITECH Manufacturing, LP (0.1 TCR gap)

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Linwood/Lexington in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Linwood/Lexington averages 0.6 TCR (18% of the Fabrics, nonwoven, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Linwood/Lexington TCR series: 2018=0.9 · 2019=0 · 2020=0.4 · 2021=1.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Linwood/Lexington falls in its industry

191 Fabrics, nonwoven, manufacturi establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 42 Fabrics, nonwoven, manufacturi employers in North Carolina.

Linwood/Lexington (201 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Linwood/Lexington
Linwood/Lexington (201 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Linwood/Lexington has more employees than the Fabrics, nonwoven, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 1.1 0.8 3 0 0
2020 0.4 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.9 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

313230 · NC · Linwood

191 Fabrics, nonwoven, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 7 employers in Linwood, 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 VITECH Manufacturing, LP 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Glatfelter 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Owens Corning Gastonia 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Diversified Converters Inc 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE D.R. Horton, Inc. - Wilmington 201 FTE
STATE-SIZE Frontier Spinning Mills Plant 2 201 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sapona Manufacturing Company, Inc. 201 FTE
STATE-SIZE SteelFab of Virginia, Inc. 201 FTE
CITY-NEAR Owens & Minor/Halyard Health 192 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lexington Plant 185 FTE
CITY-NEAR RHB - LIN 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR DataWatt Solutions, Inc. 33 FTE
NAT-TCR Spectra Contract Flooring - Plant BU/202 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR eVproducts 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR McDaniel Technical Services 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Revlis - Norton 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Regional Rehabilitation Hospital 201 FTE
NAT-SIZE John F Martin & Sons LLC 201 FTE
NAT-SIZE EmpRes Healthcare, LLC 201 FTE
NAT-SIZE Horizon Post Acute & Rehabilitation Center 201 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, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.