Carded yarn manufacturing · North Carolina

Parkdale Mills, Inc. Plant 36-37

Sparta, NC · ~167 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Parkdale Mills, Inc. Plant 36-37 runs at 161% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Carded yarn manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Parkdale Mills, Inc. Plant 36-37: 5.3 TCR = 161% of Carded yarn manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Parkdale Mills, Inc. Plant 36-37 safety composite

Parkdale Mills, Inc. Plant 36-37 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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%).

TCR Δ

−8.7

2021→2023

Parkdale Mills, Inc. Plant 36-37 injury rate improved

Parkdale Mills, Inc. Plant 36-37's TCR fell 8.7 from 9.5 in 2021 to 0.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 9.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=9.5 · 2022=5.6 · 2023=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 313110 · Sparta, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 161% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #66/74
  • PHOTO KENTWOOL
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~167 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: KENTWOOL (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · North Carolina employers → · Look up another →

Parkdale Mills, Inc. Plant 36-37 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Parkdale Mills, Inc. Plant 36-37 averages 5.3 TCR (161% 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 Mills, Inc. Plant 36-37 TCR series: 2021=9.5 · 2022=5.6 · 2023=0.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Parkdale Mills, Inc. Plant 36-37 falls in its industry

195 Carded yarn manufacturing establishments

Safer than 14% 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 #66 safest of 74 Carded yarn manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

Parkdale Mills, Inc. Plant 36-37 (167 employees, TCR 5.3) 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 Mills, Inc. Plant 36-37
Parkdale Mills, Inc. Plant 36-37 (167 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 137 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Parkdale Mills, Inc. Plant 36-37 has more 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 0.8 0.0 0 1 0
2022 5.6 2.8 10 0 0
2021 9.5 8.6 20 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

313110 · NC · Sparta

195 Carded yarn manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 14 employers in Sparta, 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 KENTWOOL 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Parkdale America LLC Plant 24 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant 25 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sapona Yarns, LLC 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sylvester & Cockrum, Inc. 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blind Industries - Raleigh Division 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE McRae Footwear Division- Wadeville 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carolina Container High Point 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bottomley Evergreens & Farms 626 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plant 36-37 197 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alleghany Health 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amano Pioneer Eclipse 122 FTE
NAT-TCR Onion River Cooperative, DBA City Market Downtown 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR The Waters of Edina 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Hmf Express Atl 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Republic Services of Alderson 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Horton Automatics 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gypsum Systems, LLC. 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ultralife Corporation 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE Microporous, LLC 167 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.