Yarn throwing, twisting, and winding of purchased yarn · North Carolina

Sapona Manufacturing Company, Inc.

Cedar Falls, NC · ~201 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sapona Manufacturing Company, Inc. runs at 152% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Yarn throwing, twisting, and winding of purchased yarn workplace, earning a grade D.

Sapona Manufacturing Company, Inc.: 5.0 TCR = 152% of Yarn throwing, twisting, and winding of purchased yarn BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sapona Manufacturing Company, Inc. safety composite

Sapona Manufacturing Company, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Sapona Manufacturing Company, Inc.: 3.4 → 7.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 7.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.95× in 2021

Sapona Manufacturing Company, Inc.'s TCR rose 4.5 from 3.4 in 2019 to 7.9 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 313110 · Cedar Falls, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 152% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #63/74
  • PHOTO Viridian Fibers LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~201 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Viridian Fibers LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Sapona Manufacturing Company, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sapona Manufacturing Company, Inc. averages 5.0 TCR (152% of the Yarn throwing, twisting, and winding of purchased yarn BLS benchmark).

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

Sapona Manufacturing Company, Inc. TCR series: 2019=3.4 · 2020=3.7 · 2021=7.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Sapona Manufacturing Company, Inc. falls in its industry

195 Yarn throwing, twisting, and w establishments

Safer than 17% 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 #63 safest of 74 Yarn throwing, twisting, and w employers in North Carolina.

Sapona Manufacturing Company, Inc. (201 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 137 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Sapona Manufacturing Company, Inc.
Sapona Manufacturing Company, Inc. (201 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 137 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Sapona Manufacturing Company, Inc. has more employees than the Yarn throwing, twisting, and winding of 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
2021 7.9 4.7 5 0 0
2020 3.7 3.7 7 0 0
2019 3.4 2.1 6 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

313110 · NC · Cedar Falls

195 Yarn throwing, twisting, and winding of purchased yarn employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 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 Viridian Fibers LLC 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant 5 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Patrick yarns 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sapona Yarns, LLC 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE D.R. Horton, Inc. - Wilmington 201 FTE
STATE-SIZE Frontier Spinning Mills Plant 2 201 FTE
STATE-SIZE Linwood/Lexington 201 FTE
STATE-SIZE SteelFab of Virginia, Inc. 201 FTE
NAT-TCR Clean Earth of Connecticut 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Indiana Metal Craft 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Pensacola Christian College, Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Walbridge 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1126 - East Peoria Il Whse 201 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mountain View Packaging LLC 201 FTE
NAT-SIZE Royal Plastics Inc 201 FTE
NAT-SIZE Strack and Van Til Highland 201 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.