Carded yarn manufacturing · South Carolina

Parkdale America LLC Plant 7

Gaffney, SC · ~136 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Parkdale America LLC Plant 7 runs at 66% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Carded yarn manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Parkdale America LLC Plant 7: 2.2 TCR = 66% of Carded yarn manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Parkdale America LLC Plant 7 safety composite

Parkdale America LLC Plant 7 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 63% 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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%).

Parkdale America LLC Plant 7 held a steady TCR band

Parkdale America LLC Plant 7's TCR held near 0.1 from 2.6 in 2021 to 2.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=2.6 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 313110 · Gaffney, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 66% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #6/12
  • PHOTO Plant 16
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~136 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Plant 16 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Parkdale America LLC Plant 7 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Parkdale America LLC Plant 7 averages 2.2 TCR (66% 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 7 TCR series: 2021=2.6 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Parkdale America LLC Plant 7 falls in its industry

195 Carded yarn manufacturing establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 12 Carded yarn manufacturing employers in South Carolina.

Parkdale America LLC Plant 7 (136 employees, TCR 2.2) 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 7
Parkdale America LLC Plant 7 (136 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 137 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Parkdale America LLC Plant 7 has fewer employees than the Carded yarn manufacturing median and a lower 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 2.6 0.7 1 3 0
2022 1.4 1.4 2 0 0
2021 2.6 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

313110 · SC · Gaffney

195 Carded yarn manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 68 employers in Gaffney, SC · 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 Plant 16 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Industrial Park - Yarn 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR USA Eton GA 4140 Hwy 411 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Complex 46 Plant 3 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Waldrop Inc 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE Reynolds Company 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE Milliken & Company Dewey Plant 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE AP Carolina 136 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nestle Prepared Frozen Foods 1,103 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nestle USA, Inc. 1,019 FTE
CITY-NEAR FCCC-- Main 929 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaffney 426 FTE
NAT-TCR NorthState - 15 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR A. Zahner Co (Kansas City & field sites) 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR GC9 Industrial Dr, Gold Creek Processing, LLC. 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Spence & Company 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cloverdale Rehabilitation and Nursing Center 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE Polyfoam LLC 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE Police 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manufacturing 136 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.