Carded yarn manufacturing · North Carolina

Parkdale America LLC Plant 3

Lexington, NC · ~91 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Parkdale America LLC Plant 3 runs at 187% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Carded yarn manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Parkdale America LLC Plant 3: 6.2 TCR = 187% of Carded yarn manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Parkdale America LLC Plant 3 safety composite

Parkdale America LLC Plant 3 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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

Parkdale America LLC Plant 3: 1.0 → 12.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 12.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.49× in 2023

Parkdale America LLC Plant 3's TCR rose 11.1 from 1.0 in 2021 to 12.1 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 313110 · Lexington, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 187% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #69/74
  • PHOTO Extrusion Plant
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~91 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Extrusion Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Parkdale America LLC Plant 3 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Parkdale America LLC Plant 3 averages 6.2 TCR (187% of the Carded yarn manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Parkdale America LLC Plant 3 TCR series: 2021=1 · 2022=5.4 · 2023=12.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Parkdale America LLC Plant 3 falls in its industry

195 Carded yarn manufacturing establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #69 safest of 74 Carded yarn manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

Parkdale America LLC Plant 3 (91 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 137 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Parkdale America LLC Plant 3
Parkdale America LLC Plant 3 (91 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 137 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Parkdale America LLC Plant 3 has fewer employees than the Carded yarn manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 12.1 3.0 2 6 0
2022 5.4 1.1 5 0 0
2021 1.0 1.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

313110 · NC · Lexington

195 Carded yarn manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 120 employers in Lexington, 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 Extrusion Plant 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Innovative Fibers 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR AM 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Miller Waste Mills d/b/a Crescent Woolen Mills/Owen Glove Lining 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tri-hishtil, Llc 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brother Construction LLC 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Triple-R Electric, Inc. 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE TRS Sesco 91 FTE
CITY-NEAR Davidson County Schools 3,351 FTE
CITY-NEAR Davidson County Government 1,237 FTE
CITY-NEAR Atrium Windows & Door 910 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASCO Power Technologies 639 FTE
NAT-TCR Western Wire Products Company 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Life EMS Inc.-Ottawa 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Central MN Mental Health Center - Main Campus 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Skagit Horticulture - MB 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE AZZ Galvanizing - Crowley 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE HVACC, LLC dba HVAC Concepts 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Toto USA Lakewood 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Terrace 91 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.