Pads and wadding, nonwoven, manufacturing · North Carolina

Norafin Americas

Mills River, NC · ~39 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Norafin Americas runs at 96% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Pads and wadding, nonwoven, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Norafin Americas: 3.2 TCR = 96% of Pads and wadding, nonwoven, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Norafin Americas safety composite

Norafin Americas scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 88% 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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%).

TCR Δ

−7.6

2020→2024

Norafin Americas injury rate improved

Norafin Americas's TCR fell 7.6 from 7.6 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=7.6 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=8.2 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 313230 · Mills River, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 96% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #22/42
  • PHOTO Top Brass Inc
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Top Brass Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Norafin Americas in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Norafin Americas averages 3.2 TCR (96% of the Pads and wadding, nonwoven, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Norafin Americas TCR series: 2020=7.6 · 2021=0 · 2022=8.2 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Norafin Americas falls in its industry

191 Pads and wadding, nonwoven, ma 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 #22 safest of 42 Pads and wadding, nonwoven, ma employers in North Carolina.

Norafin Americas (39 employees, TCR 3.2) 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 Norafin Americas
Norafin Americas (39 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Norafin Americas has fewer employees than the Pads and wadding, nonwoven, manufacturin 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 8.2 8.2 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 7.6 7.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

313230 · NC · Mills River

191 Pads and wadding, nonwoven, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 33 employers in Mills River, 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 Top Brass Inc 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR HS Fibers 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR National Wiper Alliance a business of Ecolab 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Freudenberg Performance Materials LP Durham 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Taylor's Nursery-Louisburg 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE B & S Farming, Inc. 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jeffery C Lee Farms, INC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sullivan Farms Inc. 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Linamar Light Metals-MR 566 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mills River 372 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPM Raflatac Mills River 280 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPM Raflatac, Inc 259 FTE
NAT-TCR 2692 Hornbacher's Express - Fargo, ND 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 2002 Coborn's Foley 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Worthington-Samuel Coil Processing Twinsburg 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Weeks Medical Center 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE New Jersey 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nexus on Grand 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Orange Park 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northeast Traffic Control 39 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.