Ball and Roller Bearing Manufacturing · North Carolina

Rutherfordton

Rutherfordton, NC · ~232 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rutherfordton runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Ball and Roller Bearing Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Rutherfordton: 1.3 TCR = 39% of Ball and Roller Bearing Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rutherfordton safety composite

Rutherfordton scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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

−0.5

2016→2024

Rutherfordton injury rate improved

Rutherfordton's TCR fell 0.5 from 1.5 in 2016 to 1.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.5 · 2017=1.3 · 2018=1.8 · 2019=0.8 · 2020=0.8 · 2021=1.8 · 2022=0.4 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=1.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332991 · Rutherfordton, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 39% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #2/8
  • PHOTO Craig Technologies, …
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~232 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Craig Technologies, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Rutherfordton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rutherfordton averages 1.3 TCR (39% of the Ball and Roller Bearing Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Rutherfordton TCR series: 2016=1.5 · 2017=1.3 · 2018=1.8 · 2019=0.8 · 2020=0.8 · 2021=1.8 · 2022=0.4 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=1 · BLS 3.3

Where Rutherfordton falls in its industry

125 Ball and Roller Bearing Manufa establishments

Safer than 82% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

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 8 Ball and Roller Bearing Manufa employers in North Carolina.

Rutherfordton (232 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Rutherfordton
Rutherfordton (232 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Rutherfordton has more employees than the Ball and Roller Bearing Manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 1.0 0.5 2 0 0
2023 2.1 0.9 5 0 0
2022 0.4 0.0 1 0 0
2021 1.8 0.4 4 0 0
2020 0.8 0.0 2 0 0
2019 0.8 0.4 2 0 0
2018 1.8 0.4 5 0 0
2017 1.3 0.4 2 1 0
2016 1.5 0.0 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332991 · NC · Rutherfordton

125 Ball and Roller Bearing Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 20 employers in Rutherfordton, 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 Craig Technologies, Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR McGill Manufacturing 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schaeffler Aerospace USA - Winsted 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SKF USA Inc. - Muskegon 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE DPR Construction - Raleigh Durham 232 FTE
STATE-SIZE NC-01 232 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mack Molding Company - Statesville 232 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oxford (BAMG) 232 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rutherford Regional Medical Center 438 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aallied Die Casting 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parton Lumber Company 142 FTE
CITY-NEAR RU-RU-RUTHERFORDTON 124 FTE
NAT-TCR Progressive Electric, Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Middleborough Gas & Electric Department Gas Division 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sharp Conshohocken 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Lockheed Martin Corporation US TX Dallas 1727 S Main St (5267) 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Park Place of Elmhurst 232 FTE
NAT-SIZE KYTC District 6 232 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lockheed Martin Corporation Santa Barbara CA (1384) 232 FTE
NAT-SIZE MIA 232 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, 2018, 2017, 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.