Carded nonwoven fabrics manufacturing · South Carolina

Milliken - Hillcrest Plant

Simpsonville, SC · ~131 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Milliken - Hillcrest Plant runs at 11% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Carded nonwoven fabrics manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Milliken - Hillcrest Plant: 0.3 TCR = 11% of Carded nonwoven fabrics manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Milliken - Hillcrest Plant safety composite

Milliken - Hillcrest 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

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Milliken - Hillcrest Plant: 0.0 → 0.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 0.8 TCR · DART/TCR 2.14× in 2024

Milliken - Hillcrest Plant's TCR rose 0.8 from 0.0 in 2021 to 0.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 313230 · Simpsonville, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.3 · 11% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #1/15
  • PHOTO Milliken - Gillespie…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~131 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Milliken - Gillespie Plant (0.1 TCR gap)

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Milliken - Hillcrest Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Milliken - Hillcrest Plant averages 0.3 TCR (11% of the Carded nonwoven fabrics manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Milliken - Hillcrest Plant TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=0.6 · 2023=0 · 2024=0.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Milliken - Hillcrest Plant falls in its industry

191 Carded nonwoven fabrics manufa 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 #1 safest of 15 Carded nonwoven fabrics manufa employers in South Carolina.

Milliken - Hillcrest Plant (131 employees, TCR 0.3) 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 - Hillcrest Plant
Milliken - Hillcrest Plant (131 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Milliken - Hillcrest Plant has more employees than the Carded 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 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

313230 · SC · Simpsonville

191 Carded nonwoven fabrics manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 87 employers in Simpsonville, 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 Milliken - Gillespie Plant 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Owens Corning Gastonia 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lexington Plant 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kleen Test Products - Beach City 0.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Saati Americas Corporation 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oppermann Webbing 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE Interfor US Inc. Georgetown Division 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tindall Corporation - Infrastructures 131 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sealed Air Corp, Food And Care Division 1,199 FTE
CITY-NEAR SC_Simpsonville_2 Digital Place_33101080 983 FTE
CITY-NEAR Simpsonville 610 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sunland Logistics Solutions 487 FTE
NAT-TCR K2 Civil Inc. 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Dansko Holdings Inc 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cargill 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Division Office and Engineering Center 0.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ohio Living - Lake Vista 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE Delta Air Lines - RSW 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE Winter Haven Health and Rehabilitation Center 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE EDR Staffing LLC 131 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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