Broadwoven fabrics (except rugs, tire fabrics) weaving · North Carolina

Lovelady Plant

Valdese, NC · ~159 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lovelady Plant runs at 77% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Broadwoven fabrics (except rugs, tire fabrics) weaving workplace, earning a grade B.

Lovelady Plant: 2.5 TCR = 77% of Broadwoven fabrics (except rugs, tire fabrics) weaving BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lovelady Plant safety composite

Lovelady Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

−2.2

2016→2024

Lovelady Plant injury rate improved

Lovelady Plant's TCR fell 2.2 from 3.5 in 2016 to 1.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 5.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.5 · 2018=1.7 · 2021=5.9 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 313210 · Valdese, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 77% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #18/28
  • PHOTO Abercrombie Textiles…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~159 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Abercrombie Textiles LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lovelady Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lovelady Plant averages 2.5 TCR (77% of the Broadwoven fabrics (except rugs, tire fabrics) weaving BLS benchmark).

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

Lovelady Plant TCR series: 2016=3.5 · 2018=1.7 · 2021=5.9 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Lovelady Plant falls in its industry

141 Broadwoven fabrics (except rug establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 28 Broadwoven fabrics (except rug employers in North Carolina.

Lovelady Plant (159 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 136 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Lovelady Plant
Lovelady Plant (159 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 136 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Lovelady Plant has more employees than the Broadwoven fabrics (except rugs, tire fa median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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 1.4 0.7 2 0 0
2023 1.5 1.5 2 0 0
2022 1.4 0.7 2 0 0
2021 5.9 3.3 9 0 0
2018 1.7 1.7 3 0 0
2016 3.5 3.5 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

313210 · NC · Valdese

141 Broadwoven fabrics (except rugs, tire fabrics) weaving employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 20 employers in Valdese, 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 Abercrombie Textiles LLC 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crypton Mills 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SAFETY COMPONENTS FABRIC TECHNOLOGIES INC 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valdese Weavers (Main) 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE NHM Constructors, Inc. 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pitt Electric ORI, LLC 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE IPEX USA LLC 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mount Airy Pouring Plant 159 FTE
CITY-NEAR Perkins Plant 449 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saft America Inc. 258 FTE
CITY-NEAR VALDESE NC PLANT 203 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saft America Inc. , Valdese, NC 181 FTE
NAT-TCR Takeda Covington 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Crown Lift Trucks Pittsburgh 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Volvo of Cincinnati,Porsche of the Village,Maserati of Cincinnati 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR DOL003 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Whse 0 Seffner - #01 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE LP Winchester, LLC--Fountain Circle 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fisher Dynamics - Central 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE Breakthru Beverage 159 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, 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.