Manufacturing · North Carolina

North America : VPI East

Statesville, NC · ~114 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

North America : VPI East runs at 198% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

North America : VPI East: 6.5 TCR = 198% of Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

North America : VPI East safety composite

North America : VPI East scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

North America : VPI East: 0.0 → 5.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 13.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.69× in 2023

North America : VPI East's TCR rose 5.8 from 0.0 in 2021 to 5.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 13.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Statesville, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 198% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #116/132
  • PHOTO Brookings Prince Dr …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~114 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Brookings Prince Dr Facility (0.0 TCR gap)

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North America : VPI East in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows North America : VPI East averages 6.5 TCR (198% of the Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

North America : VPI East TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=13.8 · 2023=5.8 · BLS 3.3

Where North America : VPI East falls in its industry

2,838 Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 21% 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 #116 safest of 132 Manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

North America : VPI East (114 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate North America : VPI East
North America : VPI East (114 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

North America : VPI East has more employees than the Manufacturing median and a higher 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 5.8 4.5 9 0 0
2022 13.8 11.3 11 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · NC · Statesville

2,838 Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 181 employers in Statesville, 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 Brookings Prince Dr Facility 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Milgard Windows & Doors -- Portland Manufacturing 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sterilite Corporation - ENS 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Explore Industries/ Leisure Pools USA Trading 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Buy Sod USA, LLC 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cliffside Steam Station 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pike Telecom and Renewables Pennsylvania Statewide Operations 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE Turner Asphalt LLC 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2807-0960 974 FTE
CITY-NEAR Doosan Bobcat 857 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0960 LOWE S NORTH CAROLINA RDC 836 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cheney Brothers Inc. - Statesville 830 FTE
NAT-TCR 4003 Gannon University 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Highland Tank of New York 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Slidell Dirt Cheap 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Cadence Ambulatory Surgery Center 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 5074 U of L Jewish Frazier Hospital 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE SAO : Shalmet 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nashua, Nh - 044 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE Synventive Molding Solutions NA 114 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, 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.