Differential and rear axle assemblies, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · North Carolina

Meritor Forest City

Forest City, NC · ~158 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Meritor Forest City runs at 20% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Differential and rear axle assemblies, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Meritor Forest City: 1.1 TCR = 20% of Differential and rear axle assemblies, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Meritor Forest City safety composite

Meritor Forest City scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% 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)
B 1.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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%).

Meritor Forest City held a steady TCR band

Meritor Forest City's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.2 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=1.3 · 2018=3.2 · 2019=1.0 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336350 · Forest City, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 20% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/17
  • PHOTO AAM TRMF
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~158 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AAM TRMF (0.0 TCR gap)

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Meritor Forest City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Meritor Forest City averages 1.1 TCR (20% of the Differential and rear axle assemblies, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Meritor Forest City TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=1.3 · 2018=3.2 · 2019=1 · 2020=0 · BLS 5.4

Where Meritor Forest City falls in its industry

320 Differential and rear axle ass establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 17 Differential and rear axle ass employers in North Carolina.

Meritor Forest City (158 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 200 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Meritor Forest City
Meritor Forest City (158 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 200 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Meritor Forest City has fewer employees than the Differential and rear axle assemblies, a median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 1.0 0.5 2 0 0
2018 3.2 1.4 6 1 0
2017 1.3 1.3 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336350 · NC · Forest City

320 Differential and rear axle assemblies, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 38 employers in Forest City, 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 AAM TRMF 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR GKN Driveline North America 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dry Ridge Plant 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Napoleon Facility 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wayne Bailey Inc. 158 FTE
STATE-SIZE Curtin Co. 158 FTE
STATE-SIZE Construction 158 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glen Raven Custom Fabrics LLC 158 FTE
CITY-NEAR Forest City Permanent 473 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1036 415 FTE
CITY-NEAR Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems, LLC 390 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1036 379 FTE
NAT-TCR TETRA Technologies, Inc. - El Dorado, AR 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Kemira Chemicals, Atlanta R&D 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Minneapolis - BlackHawk Industrial 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Parts Pro Automotive Warehouse 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Parts House Loc 1 158 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mississippi Care Center of Raleigh 158 FTE
NAT-SIZE Capitol Electric Co., Inc. 158 FTE
NAT-SIZE Utility Tri-State, Inc. 158 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.