Salt (except table) manufacturing · North Carolina

Premier Magnesia RPK

Waynesville, NC · ~160 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Premier Magnesia RPK runs at 124% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Salt (except table) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Premier Magnesia RPK: 4.1 TCR = 124% of Salt (except table) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Premier Magnesia RPK safety composite

Premier Magnesia RPK scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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

−2.4

2022→2023

Premier Magnesia RPK injury rate improved

Premier Magnesia RPK's TCR fell 2.4 from 5.3 in 2022 to 2.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=5.3 · 2023=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325998 · Waynesville, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 124% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #13/20
  • PHOTO Stellar Manufacturing
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~160 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Stellar Manufacturing (0.0 TCR gap)

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Premier Magnesia RPK in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Premier Magnesia RPK averages 4.1 TCR (124% of the Salt (except table) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Premier Magnesia RPK TCR series: 2022=5.3 · 2023=2.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Premier Magnesia RPK falls in its industry

485 Salt (except table) manufactur establishments

Safer than 29% 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 #13 safest of 20 Salt (except table) manufactur employers in North Carolina.

Premier Magnesia RPK (160 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Premier Magnesia RPK
Premier Magnesia RPK (160 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Premier Magnesia RPK has more employees than the Salt (except table) 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 2.9 1.7 5 0 0
2022 5.3 4.2 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325998 · NC · Waynesville

485 Salt (except table) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 45 employers in Waynesville, 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 Stellar Manufacturing 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peninsula 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clinton 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Security Signals, Inc. Somerville Plant 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE US Flue-Cured Tobacco Growers Inc. 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE National Wiper Alliance a business of Ecolab 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE 550- Burlington Finishing Plant 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE USA Mt Gilead 160 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1663 390 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1663 363 FTE
CITY-NEAR Evergreen Packaging - Waynesville 213 FTE
CITY-NEAR Store 023 202 FTE
NAT-TCR Stellar Truck & Trailer 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Green Bay, WI Facility 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Louisville Packaging 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Highgate Hotels dba Tru Orlando 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lancaster EMS - Buck 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lancaster EMS - Columbia Ave 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lancaster EMS - East 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lancaster EMS - LGH 160 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.