Powder coatings manufacturing · North Carolina

R & R Powder Coating Lincolnton

Lincolnton, NC · ~30 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

R & R Powder Coating Lincolnton runs at 505% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Powder coatings manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

R & R Powder Coating Lincolnton: 16.7 TCR = 505% of Powder coatings manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R & R Powder Coating Lincolnton safety composite

R & R Powder Coating Lincolnton scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

−0.7

2023→2024

R & R Powder Coating Lincolnton injury rate improved

R & R Powder Coating Lincolnton's TCR fell 0.7 from 17.0 in 2023 to 16.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 17.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=17.0 · 2024=16.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325510 · Lincolnton, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 16.7 · 505% of ind

  • DART 8.2 DART
  • RANK #23/23
  • PHOTO Hi-Tech Color, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hi-Tech Color, Inc. (0.4 TCR gap)

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R & R Powder Coating Lincolnton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows R & R Powder Coating Lincolnton averages 16.7 TCR (505% of the Powder coatings manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

R & R Powder Coating Lincolnton TCR series: 2023=17 · 2024=16.3 · BLS 3.3

Where R & R Powder Coating Lincolnton falls in its industry

530 Powder coatings manufacturing establishments

Safer than 1% 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 #23 safest of 23 Powder coatings manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

R & R Powder Coating Lincolnton (30 employees, TCR 16.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate R & R Powder Coating Lincolnton
R & R Powder Coating Lincolnton (30 employees, TCR 16.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5

R & R Powder Coating Lincolnton has fewer employees than the Powder coatings 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
2024 16.3 8.2 6 0 0
2023 17.0 10.2 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325510 · NC · Lincolnton

530 Powder coatings manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 71 employers in Lincolnton, 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 Hi-Tech Color, Inc. 16.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR USA SC Sumter Plant 15.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR KBP Coil Coaters inc. 17.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carboline Dayton 18.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Shugart Farm 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hays Hatchery 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hight Family Farms LLC 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE High Point Operations Center 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR RSI Home Products 769 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1109-Atrium Health Lincoln (1109) 672 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Woodmark Corporation 671 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0050-Atrium Health Lincoln 653 FTE
NAT-TCR 282 Cumming 16.7 TCR
NAT-TCR OCSD Central Jail Complex 16.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Great Western Buildings 16.7 TCR
NAT-TCR C1791 Waterbury 16.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Oden Hardy Construction, Inc. 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avoca 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cornerstone Environmental Contractors, Inc 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Colonial Heights VA 30 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. 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.