Wipes, nonwoven fabric, manufacturing · North Carolina

National Wiper Alliance a business of Ecolab

Swannanoa, NC · ~160 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

National Wiper Alliance a business of Ecolab runs at 95% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Wipes, nonwoven fabric, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

National Wiper Alliance a business of Ecolab: 3.1 TCR = 95% of Wipes, nonwoven fabric, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

National Wiper Alliance a business of Ecolab safety composite

National Wiper Alliance a business of Ecolab scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

National Wiper Alliance a business of Ecolab: 2.7 → 3.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.9× in 2023

National Wiper Alliance a business of Ecolab's TCR rose 0.8 from 2.7 in 2022 to 3.5 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 313230 · Swannanoa, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 95% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #20/42
  • PHOTO Freudenberg Performa…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~160 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Freudenberg Performance Materials LP Durham (0.0 TCR gap)

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National Wiper Alliance a business of Ecolab in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows National Wiper Alliance a business of Ecolab averages 3.1 TCR (95% of the Wipes, nonwoven fabric, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

National Wiper Alliance a business of Ecolab TCR series: 2022=2.7 · 2023=3.5 · BLS 3.3

Where National Wiper Alliance a business of Ecolab falls in its industry

191 Wipes, nonwoven fabric, manufa establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 42 Wipes, nonwoven fabric, manufa employers in North Carolina.

National Wiper Alliance a business of Ecolab (160 employees, TCR 3.1) 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 National Wiper Alliance a business of Ecolab
National Wiper Alliance a business of Ecolab (160 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.5

National Wiper Alliance a business of Ecolab has more employees than the Wipes, nonwoven fabric, 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
2023 3.5 2.8 5 0 0
2022 2.7 2.0 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

313230 · NC · Swannanoa

191 Wipes, nonwoven fabric, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 11 employers in Swannanoa, 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 Freudenberg Performance Materials LP Durham 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manufacturing 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Norafin Americas 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Top Brass Inc 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE US Flue-Cured Tobacco Growers Inc. 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE 550- Burlington Finishing Plant 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE USA Mt Gilead 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE Profile Products 160 FTE
CITY-NEAR Warren Wilson College 949 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gentry service Group 106 FTE
CITY-NEAR SODEXO AT WARREN WILSON COLL-DINING HALL 83 FTE
CITY-NEAR SODEXO AT WARREN WILSON COLLEGE 67 FTE
NAT-TCR 3 Squares Restaurant 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Shreveport Dodge LLC DBA Landers Dodge Cjrf 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR AEP Transmission Tulsa Off-SC 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Athens, AL 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Naknek 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bourne Manor Extended Care Facility 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE KFH Industries 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE Uptown Bake & Brew LLC 160 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.