Broadwoven fabrics (except rugs, tire fabrics) weaving · North Carolina

Perkins Plant

Valdese, NC · ~449 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Perkins Plant runs at 84% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Broadwoven fabrics (except rugs, tire fabrics) weaving workplace, earning a grade C.

Perkins Plant: 2.8 TCR = 84% of Broadwoven fabrics (except rugs, tire fabrics) weaving BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Perkins Plant safety composite

Perkins Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Perkins Plant: 2.0 → 3.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 3.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.97× in 2018

Perkins Plant's TCR rose 1.6 from 2.0 in 2016 to 3.6 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 313210 · Valdese, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 84% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #20/28
  • PHOTO SRG
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~449 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SRG (0.0 TCR gap)

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Perkins Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Perkins Plant averages 2.8 TCR (84% of the Broadwoven fabrics (except rugs, tire fabrics) weaving BLS benchmark).

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

Perkins Plant TCR series: 2016=2 · 2018=3.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Perkins Plant falls in its industry

141 Broadwoven fabrics (except rug establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 28 Broadwoven fabrics (except rug employers in North Carolina.

Perkins Plant (449 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 136 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Perkins Plant
Perkins Plant (449 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 136 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Perkins Plant has more employees than the Broadwoven fabrics (except rugs, tire fa median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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
2018 3.6 2.7 16 0 0
2016 2.0 1.4 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

313210 · NC · Valdese

141 Broadwoven fabrics (except rugs, tire fabrics) weaving employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 20 employers in Valdese, 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 SRG 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tencate Geosynthetics - Pendergrass 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wichita Falls TX OC 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Denim North America, LLC 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Teijin Automotive Technologies North Carolina Composites, LLC 450 FTE
STATE-SIZE NexGear (DI) 448 FTE
STATE-SIZE Foothills 450 FTE
STATE-SIZE Panthers Football LLC 448 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valdese Weavers (Main) 371 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saft America Inc. 258 FTE
CITY-NEAR VALDESE NC PLANT 203 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saft America Inc. , Valdese, NC 181 FTE
NAT-TCR Elkay Wood Products Company - Mifflinburg 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Principal Manufacturing 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Presence Villa Scalabrini Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Hallenbeck Group 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE United Home for Aged Hebrews 449 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kenny Construction Company 449 FTE
NAT-SIZE Freedom Square - IL 449 FTE
NAT-SIZE PetSmart DC-38 449 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: 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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