MANUFACTURING OF WOODEN PALLETS · North Carolina

NW-NC-NEWTON

Newton, NC · ~15 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
20.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

NW-NC-NEWTON runs at 616% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical MANUFACTURING OF WOODEN PALLETS workplace, earning a grade F.

NW-NC-NEWTON: 20.3 TCR = 616% of MANUFACTURING OF WOODEN PALLETS BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NW-NC-NEWTON safety composite

NW-NC-NEWTON scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 20.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

NW-NC-NEWTON: 18.6 → 22.1 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 22.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2020

NW-NC-NEWTON's TCR rose 3.5 from 18.6 in 2019 to 22.1 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321920 · Newton, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 20.3 · 616% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #41/42
  • PHOTO Grand Traverse Assem…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~15 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Grand Traverse Assembly (0.3 TCR gap)

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NW-NC-NEWTON in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows NW-NC-NEWTON averages 20.3 TCR (616% of the MANUFACTURING OF WOODEN PALLETS BLS benchmark).

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

NW-NC-NEWTON TCR series: 2019=18.6 · 2020=22.1 · BLS 3.3

Where NW-NC-NEWTON falls in its industry

952 MANUFACTURING OF WOODEN PALLET establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #41 safest of 42 MANUFACTURING OF WOODEN PALLET employers in North Carolina.

NW-NC-NEWTON (15 employees, TCR 20.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate NW-NC-NEWTON
NW-NC-NEWTON (15 employees, TCR 20.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3

NW-NC-NEWTON has fewer employees than the MANUFACTURING OF WOODEN PALLETS median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.3. 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
2020 22.1 0.0 2 0 0
2019 18.6 13.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321920 · NC · Newton

952 MANUFACTURING OF WOODEN PALLETS employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 83 employers in Newton, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Grand Traverse Assembly 20.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Challenger Pallet & Supply Inc. Montana 20.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Millwood Inc. - DePere 20.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gerrity Industries 21.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Strickland Farms, Inc. 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Black Gold Farms Camden 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Super-Sod Raleigh 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harvey Gin 15 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3811 - Newton NC DC 1,644 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3811 - Newton DC 1,303 FTE
CITY-NEAR GKN ePowertrain Newton 1,129 FTE
CITY-NEAR GKN Driveline Newton LLC 920 FTE
NAT-TCR Ballard Truss - Snowflake Plant 20.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Danzer Veneer - Williamsport 20.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Lile Relocation Services - Eugene Branch 20.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Markham 20.3 TCR

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: 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.