Acetate spun yarns made from purchased fiber · North Carolina

Patrick yarns

Kings Mountain, NC · ~223 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Patrick yarns runs at 148% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Acetate spun yarns made from purchased fiber workplace, earning a grade D.

Patrick yarns: 4.9 TCR = 148% of Acetate spun yarns made from purchased fiber BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Patrick yarns safety composite

Patrick yarns scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Patrick yarns: 3.2 → 7.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 7.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.16× in 2021

Patrick yarns's TCR rose 4.0 from 3.2 in 2019 to 7.3 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 313110 · Kings Mountain, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 148% of ind

  • DART 5.7 DART
  • RANK #62/74
  • PHOTO Viridian Fibers LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~223 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Viridian Fibers LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Patrick yarns in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Patrick yarns averages 4.9 TCR (148% of the Acetate spun yarns made from purchased fiber BLS benchmark).

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

Patrick yarns TCR series: 2019=3.2 · 2020=4.1 · 2021=7.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Patrick yarns falls in its industry

195 Acetate spun yarns made from p establishments

Safer than 18% 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 #62 safest of 74 Acetate spun yarns made from p employers in North Carolina.

Patrick yarns (223 employees, TCR 4.9) 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 Patrick yarns
Patrick yarns (223 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 137 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Patrick yarns has more employees than the Acetate spun yarns made from purchased f 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
2021 7.3 5.7 3 15 0
2020 4.1 1.4 7 2 0
2019 3.2 1.2 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

313110 · NC · Kings Mountain

195 Acetate spun yarns made from purchased fiber employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 64 employers in Kings Mountain, 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 Viridian Fibers LLC 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR HP - High Performance 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sapona Manufacturing Company, Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR BD Facility 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Burgaw 223 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sapona Manufacturing Company, Inc. 223 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mebane Facility 223 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elster Solutions LLC (Honeywell) 223 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hanesbrands, Inc. Cleveland Distribution Center 515 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6903_15950 397 FTE
CITY-NEAR KINGS MOUNTAIN NC 370 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hanesbrands, Inc. Canterbury Distribution Center 368 FTE
NAT-TCR 567585-Mil-Shorewood Br 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR NUTRITION/MEDIA 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Diamond Plastics Corp - Golconda 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Jersey Community Hospital 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE UDR, Inc. (Denver Office) 223 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Children's Center of Hamden 223 FTE
NAT-SIZE Black Mor LLC 223 FTE
NAT-SIZE BID Group Construction US, Inc 223 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.