Diesel and semidiesel engines manufacturing · North Carolina

Rocky Mount Engine Plant

Whitakers, NC · ~1,783 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rocky Mount Engine Plant runs at 31% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Diesel and semidiesel engines manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Rocky Mount Engine Plant: 1.0 TCR = 31% of Diesel and semidiesel engines manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rocky Mount Engine Plant safety composite

Rocky Mount Engine Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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).

C

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Rocky Mount Engine Plant: 0.6 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 2.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.57× in 2022

Rocky Mount Engine Plant's TCR rose 1.5 from 0.6 in 2017 to 2.1 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333618 · Whitakers, NC AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 31% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #2/6
  • PHOTO Cummins Sales and Se…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 61 inj
  • SIZE ~1,783 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cummins Sales and Service Arlington Upfit (0.0 TCR gap)

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Rocky Mount Engine Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rocky Mount Engine Plant averages 1.0 TCR (31% of the Diesel and semidiesel engines manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Rocky Mount Engine Plant TCR series: 2017=0.6 · 2019=0.4 · 2022=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Rocky Mount Engine Plant falls in its industry

133 Diesel and semidiesel engines establishments

Safer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 6 Diesel and semidiesel engines employers in North Carolina.

Rocky Mount Engine Plant (1,783 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 321 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Rocky Mount Engine Plant
Rocky Mount Engine Plant (1,783 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 321 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Rocky Mount Engine Plant has more employees than the Diesel and semidiesel engines manufactur median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2022 2.1 1.6 42 0 0
2019 0.4 0.3 8 0 0
2017 0.6 0.1 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333618 · NC · Whitakers

133 Diesel and semidiesel engines manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 11 employers in Whitakers, 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 Cummins Sales and Service Arlington Upfit 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Perkins Engines 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thrustmaster of Texas 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seymour Engine Plant 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE UNC HEALTH SOUTHEASTERN 1,792 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wilson (BAMG) 1,797 FTE
STATE-SIZE Headway HR Solutions 1,799 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brunswick County Schools 1,804 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cummins Rocky Mount Engine Plant 1,750 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0244-Cummins Rocky Mount Engine Plant 142 FTE
CITY-NEAR C&C Industrial, Inc 107 FTE
CITY-NEAR INSOURCE PERFORMANCE SOLUTIONS AT CUMMINS ROCKY MOUNT 70 FTE
NAT-TCR New Oxford Sales & Design Pop 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 6299-MN006 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Corteva Jackson JAC1 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Main Office 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE G1 1,782 FTE
NAT-SIZE Optum Services Puerto Rico LLC 1,782 FTE
NAT-SIZE Swift Pork 1,781 FTE
NAT-SIZE CCS 1,781 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: 2022, 2019, 2017. 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.