Industrial salt manufacturing · North Carolina

Waynesville Bulk Plant

Waynesville, NC · ~59 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Waynesville Bulk Plant runs at 238% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Industrial salt manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Waynesville Bulk Plant: 7.8 TCR = 238% of Industrial salt manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Waynesville Bulk Plant safety composite

Waynesville Bulk Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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).

F

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Waynesville Bulk Plant: 3.0 → 8.9 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 12.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.13× in 2021

Waynesville Bulk Plant's TCR rose 5.8 from 3.0 in 2018 to 8.9 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 12.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325998 · Waynesville, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 238% of ind

  • DART 8.9 DART
  • RANK #18/20
  • PHOTO Rousselot - Dubuque
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rousselot - Dubuque (0.0 TCR gap)

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Waynesville Bulk Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Waynesville Bulk Plant averages 7.8 TCR (238% of the Industrial salt manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Waynesville Bulk Plant TCR series: 2018=3 · 2019=12.6 · 2020=6.9 · 2021=8.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Waynesville Bulk Plant falls in its industry

485 Industrial salt manufacturing establishments

Safer than 6% 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 #18 safest of 20 Industrial salt manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

Waynesville Bulk Plant (59 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Waynesville Bulk Plant
Waynesville Bulk Plant (59 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Waynesville Bulk Plant has fewer employees than the Industrial salt manufacturing median and a higher 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
2021 8.9 8.9 6 0 0
2020 6.9 5.2 4 0 0
2019 12.6 12.6 7 0 0
2018 3.0 3.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325998 · NC · Waynesville

485 Industrial salt manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 45 employers in Waynesville, 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 Rousselot - Dubuque 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Qualichem, Inc.- Plant 1 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Spraytech LLC 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arden Hills Pellet Facility 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Christman Company - NC 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pike Mississippi Statewide Operations 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rifenburg North Carolina, LLC 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Carolina - 03 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1663 390 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1663 363 FTE
CITY-NEAR Evergreen Packaging - Waynesville 213 FTE
CITY-NEAR Store 023 202 FTE
NAT-TCR Casella Construction Inc. 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR greenhaven 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Double O 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 4769-994-Pottery Barn 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Store #632 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store #038 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Overhead Door Company #141 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eastern Contractor Services #845 59 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. 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.