Texturizing purchased yarn · North Carolina

Sapona Yarns, LLC

Cedar Falls, NC · ~164 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sapona Yarns, LLC runs at 156% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Texturizing purchased yarn workplace, earning a grade D.

Sapona Yarns, LLC: 5.2 TCR = 156% of Texturizing purchased yarn BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sapona Yarns, LLC safety composite

Sapona Yarns, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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%).

TCR Δ

−8.2

2021→2023

Sapona Yarns, LLC injury rate improved

Sapona Yarns, LLC's TCR fell 8.2 from 9.1 in 2021 to 0.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 9.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=9.1 · 2022=5.5 · 2023=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 156% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #65/74
  • PHOTO Plant 5
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~164 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Plant 5 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sapona Yarns, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sapona Yarns, LLC averages 5.2 TCR (156% of the Texturizing purchased yarn BLS benchmark).

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

Sapona Yarns, LLC TCR series: 2021=9.1 · 2022=5.5 · 2023=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Sapona Yarns, LLC falls in its industry

195 Texturizing purchased yarn establishments

Safer than 16% 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 #65 safest of 74 Texturizing purchased yarn employers in North Carolina.

Sapona Yarns, LLC (164 employees, TCR 5.2) 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 Yarns, LLC
Sapona Yarns, LLC (164 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 137 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Sapona Yarns, LLC has more employees than the Texturizing purchased yarn 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
2023 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2022 5.5 4.1 8 0 0
2021 9.1 5.4 9 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

313110 · NC · Cedar Falls

195 Texturizing 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 Plant 5 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Parkdale America LLC Plant 24 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR KENTWOOL 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Parkdale Mills, Inc. Plant 36-37 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Briegan Concrete LLC 164 FTE
STATE-SIZE 111-115 Thomasville 164 FTE
STATE-SIZE CertainTeed Claremont16 164 FTE
STATE-SIZE Custom Golf 164 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sapona Manufacturing Company, Inc. 201 FTE
NAT-TCR Athea Laboratories 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR NW4S, Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Hereford 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR AUC-Ft. Pierce 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE So Cal 164 FTE
NAT-SIZE McElroy's Inc 164 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lf-Me-Livermore Falls 164 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Barstow 164 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: 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.