Fabrics, nonwoven, manufacturing · North Carolina

Owens Corning Gastonia

Dallas, NC · ~83 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Owens Corning Gastonia runs at 13% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Fabrics, nonwoven, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Owens Corning Gastonia: 0.4 TCR = 13% of Fabrics, nonwoven, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Owens Corning Gastonia safety composite

Owens Corning Gastonia scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% 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

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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

Owens Corning Gastonia: 0.0 → 1.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.3 TCR · DART/TCR 3× in 2024

Owens Corning Gastonia's TCR rose 1.3 from 0.0 in 2022 to 1.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 13% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #2/42
  • PHOTO Milliken - Gillespie…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~83 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Milliken - Gillespie Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Owens Corning Gastonia in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Owens Corning Gastonia averages 0.4 TCR (13% of the Fabrics, nonwoven, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Owens Corning Gastonia TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Owens Corning Gastonia falls in its industry

191 Fabrics, nonwoven, manufacturi establishments

Safer than 97% 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 #2 safest of 42 Fabrics, nonwoven, manufacturi employers in North Carolina.

Owens Corning Gastonia (83 employees, TCR 0.4) 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 Owens Corning Gastonia
Owens Corning Gastonia (83 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Owens Corning Gastonia has more employees than the Fabrics, nonwoven, manufacturing 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 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

313230 · NC · Dallas

191 Fabrics, nonwoven, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 22 employers in Dallas, 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 Milliken - Gillespie Plant 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Milliken - Hillcrest Plant 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Linwood/Lexington 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lexington Plant 0.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE ROCKWELL FARMS INC 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gastonia Operations Center 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.R. Horton, Inc. - Greensboro 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Raleigh-Durham Call Center 83 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston College 760 FTE
CITY-NEAR Store 146 168 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dixon Quick Coupling 136 FTE
CITY-NEAR Innovative Glass of America, Inc. 132 FTE
NAT-TCR Nutrien LNO 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Nucor Buildings Systems-Texas 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Huhtamaki, Inc. 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR US SF NRS Beverage Distribution 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Magenta LLC 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE D.R. Horton, Inc. - Portland 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sloan Security Group, INC 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mesa Equipment Co Inc 83 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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