Coiled springs (except clock, watch), light gauge, made from purchased wire or strip, manufacturing · North Carolina

Newcomb Spring of Carolina

Gastonia, NC · ~27 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Newcomb Spring of Carolina runs at 331% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Coiled springs (except clock, watch), light gauge, made from purchased wire or strip, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Newcomb Spring of Carolina: 10.9 TCR = 331% of Coiled springs (except clock, watch), light gauge, made from purchased wire or strip, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Newcomb Spring of Carolina safety composite

Newcomb Spring of Carolina scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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).

F

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Newcomb Spring of Carolina: 3.7 → 18.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 18.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.33× in 2018

Newcomb Spring of Carolina's TCR rose 14.4 from 3.7 in 2016 to 18.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332613 · Gastonia, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.9 · 331% of ind

  • DART 14.5 DART
  • RANK #12/12
  • PHOTO Triangle Suspension
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Triangle Suspension (0.5 TCR gap)

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Newcomb Spring of Carolina in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Newcomb Spring of Carolina averages 10.9 TCR (331% of the Coiled springs (except clock, watch), light gauge, made from purchased wire or strip, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Newcomb Spring of Carolina TCR series: 2016=3.7 · 2018=18.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Newcomb Spring of Carolina falls in its industry

189 Coiled springs (except clock, establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 12 Coiled springs (except clock, employers in North Carolina.

Newcomb Spring of Carolina (27 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Newcomb Spring of Carolina
Newcomb Spring of Carolina (27 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Newcomb Spring of Carolina has fewer employees than the Coiled springs (except clock, watch), li median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2018 18.1 14.5 5 0 0
2016 3.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332613 · NC · Gastonia

189 Coiled springs (except clock, watch), light gauge, made from purchased wire or strip, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 182 employers in Gastonia, 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 Triangle Suspension 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Automatic Spring Coiling 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spiller Spring 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Conover Coils 10.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bissette Farms, Inc 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hyde County Pullet Farm 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hyde County Pullet 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Price Logging Inc 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston Memorial Hospital, Incorporated d/b/a CaroMont Regional Medical Center 3,156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston County Government 1,711 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wix Allen Plant 931 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gastonia Components and Logistics - Tulip 912 FTE
NAT-TCR Youngs Communications Co Inc 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR St Albans Vermont Site 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ec Anto Waiver Core Office 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Envigo 10.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Suites on Paseo 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Burbank 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Deans Electric Inc 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3 - Theisen's - Dewitt 27 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: 2018, 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.