Ball bearings manufacturing · North Carolina

Morganton - Burke Drive

Morganton, NC · ~122 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Morganton - Burke Drive runs at 99% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Ball bearings manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Morganton - Burke Drive: 3.3 TCR = 99% of Ball bearings manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Morganton - Burke Drive safety composite

Morganton - Burke Drive scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Morganton - Burke Drive: 1.7 → 4.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 6.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.81× in 2024

Morganton - Burke Drive's TCR rose 2.9 from 1.7 in 2016 to 4.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332991 · Morganton, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 99% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #7/8
  • PHOTO ILJIN Slewing
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 49 inj
  • SIZE ~122 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ILJIN Slewing (0.0 TCR gap)

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Morganton - Burke Drive in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Morganton - Burke Drive averages 3.3 TCR (99% of the Ball bearings manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Morganton - Burke Drive TCR series: 2016=1.7 · 2017=2.4 · 2018=5.6 · 2019=0.4 · 2020=2.1 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=6.5 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=4.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Morganton - Burke Drive falls in its industry

125 Ball bearings manufacturing establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 8 Ball bearings manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

Morganton - Burke Drive (122 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Morganton - Burke Drive
Morganton - Burke Drive (122 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Morganton - Burke Drive has fewer employees than the Ball bearings manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 4.6 2.6 7 0 0
2023 2.4 0.6 4 0 0
2022 6.5 6.5 9 0 0
2021 3.5 3.5 4 0 0
2020 2.1 0.7 3 0 0
2019 0.4 0.2 8 0 0
2018 5.6 4.3 9 0 0
2017 2.4 0.0 3 0 0
2016 1.7 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332991 · NC · Morganton

125 Ball bearings manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 106 employers in Morganton, 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 ILJIN Slewing 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schaeffler Group USA Inc. - Fort Mill 1 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schaeffler Aerospace USA 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heim Bearings 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Operations 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Concord Water Services 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Utili-Serve LLC 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Granite Contracting LLC 122 FTE
CITY-NEAR DEX-BLUE RIDGE HOSPITAL 3,263 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Ridge HealthCare Hospitals, Inc. 1,461 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0090-BRHC Hospitals 1,460 FTE
CITY-NEAR Broughton Hospital 1,198 FTE
NAT-TCR Ebner Furnaces, Inc. 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Chapin International 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Jonesboro Roofing Co., Inc. 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR E.M. Heath Supermarket 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE JUNEAU 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE Westhaven Community 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE Signature Company 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wildeck 122 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, 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.