Cotton spun yarns made from purchased fiber · North Carolina

Shuford Yarns Hickory Spinners Plant #01

Hickory, NC · ~57 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shuford Yarns Hickory Spinners Plant #01 runs at 12% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Cotton spun yarns made from purchased fiber workplace, earning a grade A.

Shuford Yarns Hickory Spinners Plant #01: 0.4 TCR = 12% of Cotton spun yarns made from purchased fiber BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shuford Yarns Hickory Spinners Plant #01 safety composite

Shuford Yarns Hickory Spinners Plant #01 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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

Shuford Yarns Hickory Spinners Plant #01: 0.0 → 1.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.1 TCR · DART/TCR 2.97× in 2024

Shuford Yarns Hickory Spinners Plant #01's TCR rose 1.1 from 0.0 in 2022 to 1.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 313110 · Hickory, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 12% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #1/74
  • PHOTO Sage Automotive Inte…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sage Automotive Interiors (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shuford Yarns Hickory Spinners Plant #01 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shuford Yarns Hickory Spinners Plant #01 averages 0.4 TCR (12% of the Cotton spun yarns made from purchased fiber BLS benchmark).

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

Shuford Yarns Hickory Spinners Plant #01 TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Shuford Yarns Hickory Spinners Plant #01 falls in its industry

195 Cotton spun yarns made from pu establishments

Safer than 97% 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 #1 safest of 74 Cotton spun yarns made from pu employers in North Carolina.

Shuford Yarns Hickory Spinners Plant #01 (57 employees, TCR 0.4) 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 Shuford Yarns Hickory Spinners Plant #01
Shuford Yarns Hickory Spinners Plant #01 (57 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 137 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Shuford Yarns Hickory Spinners Plant #01 has fewer employees than the Cotton spun yarns made from purchased fi median and a lower 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
2024 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

313110 · NC · Hickory

195 Cotton spun yarns made from purchased fiber employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 240 employers in Hickory, 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 Sage Automotive Interiors 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coats & Clark Toccoa 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR USA Milledgeville GA 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Golden Valley Plant 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corporate Division 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kirlin Builders 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cape Romain / McLean A Joint Venture 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Engineered Steel Products 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR Catawba Valley Medical Center 2,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR Merchants Distributors LLC 1,480 FTE
CITY-NEAR Frye Regional Medical Center 1,363 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hickory Manufacturing & Technology Center 1,006 FTE
NAT-TCR SDB, Inc. Intel Ocotillo, Chandler 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR NY, Rochester - 2696 Manitou Rd. (SAS-SS) 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Dallas Regional Office 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR ExxonMobil Blending and Packaging Plant 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Choice Fasteners 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maf-Ground Ops 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Neighborhood Thrift 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stayton Elementary School 57 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.