Ball joints (except aircraft, motor vehicle) manufacturing · North Carolina

Pioneer Motor Bearing Company

Kings Mountain, NC · ~57 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pioneer Motor Bearing Company runs at 209% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ball joints (except aircraft, motor vehicle) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Pioneer Motor Bearing Company: 6.9 TCR = 209% of Ball joints (except aircraft, motor vehicle) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pioneer Motor Bearing Company safety composite

Pioneer Motor Bearing Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.8

2016→2024

Pioneer Motor Bearing Company injury rate improved

Pioneer Motor Bearing Company's TCR fell 1.8 from 3.3 in 2016 to 1.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 31.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.3 · 2019=1.8 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=3.8 · 2022=31.1 · 2023=6.8 · 2024=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333613 · Kings Mountain, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.9 · 209% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO Altra Coulpings (TB …
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Altra Coulpings (TB Wood's/Ameridrives)-San Marcos (0.1 TCR gap)

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Pioneer Motor Bearing Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pioneer Motor Bearing Company averages 6.9 TCR (209% of the Ball joints (except aircraft, motor vehicle) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Pioneer Motor Bearing Company TCR series: 2016=3.3 · 2019=1.8 · 2020=0 · 2021=3.8 · 2022=31.1 · 2023=6.8 · 2024=1.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Pioneer Motor Bearing Company falls in its industry

111 Ball joints (except aircraft, establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Ball joints (except aircraft, employers in North Carolina.

Pioneer Motor Bearing Company (57 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Pioneer Motor Bearing Company
Pioneer Motor Bearing Company (57 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Pioneer Motor Bearing Company has fewer employees than the Ball joints (except aircraft, motor vehi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2024 1.5 0.0 1 0 0
2023 6.8 3.4 1 3 0
2022 31.1 31.1 2 0 0
2021 3.8 0.0 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2016 3.3 1.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333613 · NC · Kings Mountain

111 Ball joints (except aircraft, motor vehicle) manufacturing 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 Altra Coulpings (TB Wood's/Ameridrives)-San Marcos 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR BELDEN TOOLS INC 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Hampshire Industries 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Suhner Mfg., Inc. 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corporate Division 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kirlin Builders 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cape Romain / McLean A Joint Venture 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Engineered Steel Products 57 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 Cincinnati 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Lexington 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR MEMS Headquarters 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Springfield, VA 6.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Price Rite Store 209 University 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Human Resources 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anchor - Easton 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Wayland Baptist University 57 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.