Lawn and garden equipment manufacturing · North Carolina

North Carolina Manufacturing

Swepsonville, NC · ~986 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

North Carolina Manufacturing runs at 107% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Lawn and garden equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

North Carolina Manufacturing: 3.5 TCR = 107% of Lawn and garden equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

North Carolina Manufacturing safety composite

North Carolina Manufacturing scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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 3.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

North Carolina Manufacturing: 2.8 → 5.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.5× in 2024

North Carolina Manufacturing's TCR rose 2.8 from 2.8 in 2022 to 5.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333112 · Swepsonville, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 107% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Vergennes
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 63 inj
  • SIZE ~986 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Vergennes (0.0 TCR gap)

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North Carolina Manufacturing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows North Carolina Manufacturing averages 3.5 TCR (107% of the Lawn and garden equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

North Carolina Manufacturing TCR series: 2022=2.8 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=5.6 · BLS 3.3

Where North Carolina Manufacturing falls in its industry

91 Lawn and garden equipment manu establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Lawn and garden equipment manu employers in North Carolina.

North Carolina Manufacturing (986 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate North Carolina Manufacturing
North Carolina Manufacturing (986 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 employees and a TCR of 3.6

North Carolina Manufacturing has more employees than the Lawn and garden equipment manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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 5.6 5.3 35 4 0
2023 2.2 2.2 6 11 0
2022 2.8 2.7 22 8 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333112 · NC · Swepsonville

91 Lawn and garden equipment manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 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 Vergennes 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Holstein, WI- Plant 2 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Briggs & Stratton - Statesboro Plant 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Briggs & Stratton Corp.- Turf & Consumer Products 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Brunswick Nuclear Plant 986 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vaya Health 988 FTE
STATE-SIZE Barnhill Contracting Company 982 FTE
STATE-SIZE HAECO Americas - GSO 991 FTE
CITY-NEAR Honda Power Equipment Mfg., Inc. 1,156 FTE
NAT-TCR Mark Haynes Construction, Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant D4 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Smyth Companies - Bedford 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Oviedo Medical Center 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dc1 & Dc2 986 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Elgin 986 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ephrata Community Hospital 986 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avanzar Interior Technologies 986 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.