Blades, knife and razor, manufacturing · North Carolina

Microtech Knives - 321 Fanning Fields

Mills River, NC · ~95 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Microtech Knives - 321 Fanning Fields runs at 268% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Blades, knife and razor, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Microtech Knives - 321 Fanning Fields: 8.8 TCR = 268% of Blades, knife and razor, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Microtech Knives - 321 Fanning Fields safety composite

Microtech Knives - 321 Fanning Fields scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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

−18.0

2021→2024

Microtech Knives - 321 Fanning Fields injury rate improved

Microtech Knives - 321 Fanning Fields's TCR fell 18.0 from 22.1 in 2021 to 4.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 22.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=22.1 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=6.5 · 2024=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332215 · Mills River, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 268% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK P13
  • PHOTO Dexter Russell South…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~95 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dexter Russell Southbridge (0.2 TCR gap)

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Microtech Knives - 321 Fanning Fields in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Microtech Knives - 321 Fanning Fields averages 8.8 TCR (268% of the Blades, knife and razor, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Microtech Knives - 321 Fanning Fields TCR series: 2021=22.1 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=6.5 · 2024=4.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Microtech Knives - 321 Fanning Fields falls in its industry

52 Blades, knife and razor, manuf establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Microtech Knives - 321 Fanning Fields (95 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Microtech Knives - 321 Fanning Fields
Microtech Knives - 321 Fanning Fields (95 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.4

Microtech Knives - 321 Fanning Fields has more employees than the Blades, knife and razor, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.4. 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 4.2 0.6 7 0 0
2023 6.5 0.0 11 0 0
2022 2.6 0.0 1 0 0
2021 22.1 0.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332215 · NC · Mills River

52 Blades, knife and razor, manufacturing 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 Dexter Russell Southbridge 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carlson Products LLC 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rada Mfg. Co. 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR All-Clad Metalcrafters 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Circle S Ranch NC 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Raleigh North Transmission and Distribution Operations Center 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE MB Haynes Corporation (Office) 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carolina Conduit Systems, Inc 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR Linamar Light Metals-MR 566 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mills River 372 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPM Raflatac Mills River 280 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPM Raflatac, Inc 259 FTE
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DWA2 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Columbiana Boiler Company, LLC 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Cedarbrook Senior living Rochester 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Yeager'S Sporting Goods & Marina, Inc. 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Harvey W. Hottel 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maplewood YMCA Community Center 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE iFit Smithfield Production Facility 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE KVC Hospital Hays 95 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.