Nonwoven fabrics manufacturing · South Carolina

Milliken - Gillespie Plant

Union, SC · ~81 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Milliken - Gillespie Plant runs at 12% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Nonwoven fabrics manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Milliken - Gillespie Plant: 0.4 TCR = 12% of Nonwoven fabrics manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Milliken - Gillespie Plant safety composite

Milliken - Gillespie Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% 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

83/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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%).

Milliken - Gillespie Plant held a steady TCR band

Milliken - Gillespie Plant's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 1.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=0.0 · 2023=1.2 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 313230 · Union, SC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 12% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/15
  • PHOTO Owens Corning Gastonia
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~81 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Owens Corning Gastonia (0.0 TCR gap)

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Milliken - Gillespie Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Milliken - Gillespie Plant averages 0.4 TCR (12% of the Nonwoven fabrics manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Milliken - Gillespie Plant TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=1.2 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Milliken - Gillespie Plant falls in its industry

191 Nonwoven fabrics manufacturing establishments

Safer than 98% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 15 Nonwoven fabrics manufacturing employers in South Carolina.

Milliken - Gillespie Plant (81 employees, TCR 0.4) 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 Milliken - Gillespie Plant
Milliken - Gillespie Plant (81 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Milliken - Gillespie Plant has fewer employees than the Nonwoven fabrics 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

313230 · SC · Union

191 Nonwoven fabrics manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 27 employers in Union, SC · 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 Owens Corning Gastonia 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Milliken - Hillcrest Plant 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lexington Plant 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Linwood/Lexington 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Carolina Fresh Farms 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hatchery (Pageland) 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lake Murray Environmental 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Performance Contractors, Inc. - Evonik Goose Creek 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gestamp SC LLC 859 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gestamp South Carolina 768 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tyger River 275 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tyger River Plant 268 FTE
NAT-TCR 1200 Washington-Minneapolis 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR MTC Holsters 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR SDB, Inc. (Corporate Office) 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Transcontinental Packaging Lenexa 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Coastal Greenery, Inc. 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Airxchange 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ecolab - Joliet EC3 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Component Bar Products 81 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.