Alkaline cell primary batteries manufacturing · North Carolina

Saft America Inc.

Valdese, NC · ~258 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Saft America Inc. runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Alkaline cell primary batteries manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Saft America Inc.: 2.0 TCR = 62% of Alkaline cell primary batteries manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Saft America Inc. safety composite

Saft America Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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)
D 2.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Saft America Inc.: 1.4 → 2.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 2.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.33× in 2018

Saft America Inc.'s TCR rose 1.4 from 1.4 in 2017 to 2.7 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 335912 · Valdese, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 62% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO Energizer Manufactur…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~258 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Energizer Manufacturing Inc. Plant 1 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Saft America Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Saft America Inc. averages 2.0 TCR (62% of the Alkaline cell primary batteries manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Saft America Inc. TCR series: 2017=1.4 · 2018=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Saft America Inc. falls in its industry

42 Alkaline cell primary batterie establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

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 6 Alkaline cell primary batterie employers in North Carolina.

Saft America Inc. (258 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 181 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 02004006008001,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Saft America Inc.
Saft America Inc. (258 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 181 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Saft America Inc. has more employees than the Alkaline cell primary batteries manufact median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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
2018 2.7 2.7 5 1 0
2017 1.4 1.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

335912 · NC · Valdese

42 Alkaline cell primary batteries manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 20 employers in Valdese, 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 Energizer Manufacturing Inc. Plant 1 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Duracell Manufacturing 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Integer 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lithium Division 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Southeast Connections LLc- Greensboro, NC 258 FTE
STATE-SIZE Milkco, Inc 258 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sanford 1 258 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1498 258 FTE
CITY-NEAR Perkins Plant 449 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valdese Weavers (Main) 371 FTE
CITY-NEAR VALDESE NC PLANT 203 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saft America Inc. , Valdese, NC 181 FTE
NAT-TCR Ross store 73 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR West Oaks Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 0932 - Laredo Tx (Dry) Depot 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at South Plainfield School Dist. 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE VF Jeanswear 258 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Columbia Air Ramp (Sccae) 258 FTE
NAT-SIZE JFK Gateway 258 FTE
NAT-SIZE APS Four Corners - Sundt Construction 258 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.