Salads, fresh or refrigerated, manufacturing · North Carolina

VA Bessemer

Bessemer City, NC · ~866 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

VA Bessemer runs at 30% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Salads, fresh or refrigerated, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

VA Bessemer: 1.2 TCR = 30% of Salads, fresh or refrigerated, manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

VA Bessemer safety composite

VA Bessemer scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

−0.5

2016→2021

VA Bessemer injury rate improved

VA Bessemer's TCR fell 0.5 from 1.7 in 2016 to 1.2 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2016 at 1.7 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.7 · 2017=1.0 · 2018=0.8 · 2019=1.4 · 2020=1.3 · 2021=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311991 · Bessemer City, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 30% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #2/6
  • PHOTO CF Dallas
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 62 inj
  • SIZE ~866 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CF Dallas (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · North Carolina employers → · Look up another →

VA Bessemer in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows VA Bessemer averages 1.2 TCR (30% of the Salads, fresh or refrigerated, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

VA Bessemer TCR series: 2016=1.7 · 2017=1 · 2018=0.8 · 2019=1.4 · 2020=1.3 · 2021=1.2 · BLS 4.1

Where VA Bessemer falls in its industry

376 Salads, fresh or refrigerated, establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

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 6 Salads, fresh or refrigerated, employers in North Carolina.

VA Bessemer (866 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate VA Bessemer
VA Bessemer (866 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1

VA Bessemer has more employees than the Salads, fresh or refrigerated, manufactu median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 1.2 0.7 10 0 0
2020 1.3 1.0 9 4 0
2019 1.4 0.7 13 0 0
2018 0.8 0.2 7 0 0
2017 1.0 0.1 8 0 0
2016 1.7 0.5 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311991 · NC · Bessemer City

376 Salads, fresh or refrigerated, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 7 employers in Bessemer City, 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 CF Dallas 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fresh Express Inc 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Danville Manufacturing Location 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Home Chef - Baltimore 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Seqirus, Inc. 865 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brookdale Senior Living 867 FTE
STATE-SIZE Scotland Memorial Hospital 864 FTE
STATE-SIZE Herbalife HIMWS 863 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bud of California Value Added Bessemer City 684 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hunter Douglas Window Designs - NC 197 FTE
CITY-NEAR Charlotte 134 FTE
CITY-NEAR ADS Charlotte 79 FTE
NAT-TCR Amen Ranch Loc. #34 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Kgct Superior Courthouse 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Bhct Bhc Judicial Facility (Court) 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Tate and Lyle 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point 866 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ole Mexican Foods, Norcross 6585 866 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coast King Packing, LLC Arizona 866 FTE
NAT-SIZE Palmetto Health Baptist Parkridge 866 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.