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
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.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 5.2
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 3.3
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 18
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares Sapona Yarns, LLC's OSHA Total Case Rate of 5.2 to the Texturizing purchased yarn BLS benchmark of 3.3 (156% of benchmark) across 3 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
Sapona Yarns, LLC's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.
Where Sapona Yarns, LLC falls in its industry
200 Texturizing purchased yarn establishmentsSafer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.
Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #68 safest of 77 Texturizing purchased yarn employers in North Carolina.
Trend analysis for Sapona Yarns, LLC
Between 2021 and 2023, Sapona Yarns, LLC's Total Case Rate improved from 9.1 to 0.9 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 90% decrease across 2 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2023, at a TCR of 0.9, while 2021 saw the highest rate, at 9.1, a spread of 8.2 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 3 reporting years, Sapona Yarns, LLC recorded 18 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 3-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 18 injuries, 1 illnesses shown on this page for Sapona Yarns, LLC are sourced from its own 3 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 313110 - Texturizing purchased yarn.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2023)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
1 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 227,382 hours worked = 0.88 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Sapona Yarns, LLC (this establishment) | 5.15 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 3-year avg |
| Thread, all fibers, manufacturing industry avg | 3.30 | BLS IIF, NAICS 313110 |
| North Carolina state avg (all industries) | 3.89 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Sapona Yarns, LLC to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2023: 1 reportable incidents · 1 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 8 reportable incidents · 8 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2021: 10 reportable incidents · 9 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
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 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Sapona Yarns, LLC's reported OSHA injury record versus its Texturizing purchased yarn peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 156% of the Texturizing purchased yarn benchmark, Sapona Yarns, LLC reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Texturizing purchased yarn sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.