Automobile suspension springs, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing · North Carolina

STUS Gastonia

Gastonia, NC · ~359 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

STUS Gastonia runs at 65% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Automobile suspension springs, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

STUS Gastonia: 2.1 TCR = 65% of Automobile suspension springs, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

STUS Gastonia safety composite

STUS Gastonia scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.5 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

−1.3

2018→2019

STUS Gastonia injury rate improved

STUS Gastonia's TCR fell 1.3 from 2.8 in 2018 to 1.5 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 2.8 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=2.8 · 2019=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332613 · Gastonia, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 65% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #2/12
  • PHOTO Twist Plants 1 and 7
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~359 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Twist Plants 1 and 7 (0.0 TCR gap)

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STUS Gastonia in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows STUS Gastonia averages 2.1 TCR (65% of the Automobile suspension springs, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

STUS Gastonia TCR series: 2018=2.8 · 2019=1.5 · BLS 3.3

Where STUS Gastonia falls in its industry

189 Automobile suspension springs, establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 12 Automobile suspension springs, employers in North Carolina.

STUS Gastonia (359 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate STUS Gastonia
STUS Gastonia (359 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 4.4

STUS Gastonia has more employees than the Automobile suspension springs, heavy gau median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2019 1.5 1.5 6 0 0
2018 2.8 2.5 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332613 · NC · Gastonia

189 Automobile suspension springs, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 182 employers in Gastonia, 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 Twist Plants 1 and 7 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR SUHM Spring Works, Inc 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR R&L Spring Company 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Century Spring Mfg. Co. 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Complex 46 359 FTE
STATE-SIZE White River Marine Group, LLC New Bern, NC 359 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1379 359 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4574 359 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston Memorial Hospital, Incorporated d/b/a CaroMont Regional Medical Center 3,156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston County Government 1,711 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wix Allen Plant 931 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gastonia Components and Logistics - Tulip 912 FTE
NAT-TCR Delta Power Company 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Cadet Plant 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR John Deere RDC-Dallas 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Houston Unlimited 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE NOTS Logistics LLC 359 FTE
NAT-SIZE Buckman North America Memphis 359 FTE
NAT-SIZE Edaville Family Theme Park 359 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rankin Warehouse 359 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: 2019, 2018. 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.