Fire extinguishers, portable, manufacturing · North Carolina

Walter Kidde Portable Equipment (Mebane)

Mebane, NC · ~182 workers · 9 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

Walter Kidde Portable Equipment (Mebane) runs at 11% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Fire extinguishers, portable, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Walter Kidde Portable Equipment (Mebane): 0.4 TCR = 11% of Fire extinguishers, portable, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Walter Kidde Portable Equipment (Mebane) safety composite

Walter Kidde Portable Equipment (Mebane) 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).

B

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

Walter Kidde Portable Equipment (Mebane): 0.5 → 1.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Walter Kidde Portable Equipment (Mebane)'s TCR rose 0.6 from 0.5 in 2016 to 1.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339999 · Mebane, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 11% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/11
  • PHOTO Furhaven Pet Product…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~182 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Furhaven Pet Products KY (0.0 TCR gap)

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Walter Kidde Portable Equipment (Mebane) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Walter Kidde Portable Equipment (Mebane) averages 0.4 TCR (11% of the Fire extinguishers, portable, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Walter Kidde Portable Equipment (Mebane) TCR series: 2016=0.5 · 2017=0.8 · 2018=0.4 · 2019=0.4 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Walter Kidde Portable Equipment (Mebane) falls in its industry

281 Fire extinguishers, portable, establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

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 11 Fire extinguishers, portable, employers in North Carolina.

Walter Kidde Portable Equipment (Mebane) (182 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Walter Kidde Portable Equipment (Mebane)
Walter Kidde Portable Equipment (Mebane) (182 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Walter Kidde Portable Equipment (Mebane) has more employees than the Fire extinguishers, portable, manufactur median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.4 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.4 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.8 0.0 2 0 0
2016 0.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339999 · NC · Mebane

281 Fire extinguishers, portable, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 71 employers in Mebane, 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 Furhaven Pet Products KY 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MPW Industrial Water Services, Inc. - Port Arthur 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Janus Fire Systems 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Procter & Gamble Dist. Co. 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lassonde Pappas Hendersonville 182 FTE
STATE-SIZE Taylor Brothers 182 FTE
STATE-SIZE CCL Label Charlotte 182 FTE
STATE-SIZE Noble Oil Services, Inc. (Corporate) 182 FTE
CITY-NEAR GKN Alamance 912 FTE
CITY-NEAR IS - MFG US - Mebane, NC 642 FTE
CITY-NEAR Industrial Solutions : IS - MFG US - Mebane, NC 642 FTE
CITY-NEAR Industrial Connections and Solutions LLC 620 FTE
NAT-TCR Belkin International, Inc. 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Forge Global Industries, LLC 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR SHK Management, Inc. 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Villagrana Logistics Inc 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE NewBridge on the Charles Assisted Living 182 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Food Stores 6043 182 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oberlander Electric Co 182 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pratt (Wapakoneta Corrugating), LLC 182 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, 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.