Stoppers, rubber, manufacturing · North Carolina

West - Kinston

Kinston, NC · ~348 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

West - Kinston runs at 20% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Stoppers, rubber, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

West - Kinston: 0.7 TCR = 20% of Stoppers, rubber, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

West - Kinston safety composite

West - Kinston scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 50%), 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

West - Kinston: 0.0 → 1.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 1.7 TCR · DART/TCR 2.53× in 2021

West - Kinston's TCR rose 1.7 from 0.0 in 2018 to 1.7 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 2.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326299 · Kinston, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 20% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #1/8
  • PHOTO Gates-Columbia MO
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~348 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gates-Columbia MO (0.0 TCR gap)

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West - Kinston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows West - Kinston averages 0.7 TCR (20% of the Stoppers, rubber, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

West - Kinston TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0.3 · 2021=1.7 · BLS 3.3

Where West - Kinston falls in its industry

257 Stoppers, rubber, manufacturin establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

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 8 Stoppers, rubber, manufacturin employers in North Carolina.

West - Kinston (348 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 West - Kinston
West - Kinston (348 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.6

West - Kinston has more employees than the Stoppers, rubber, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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 1.7 1.7 8 0 0
2019 0.3 0.3 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326299 · NC · Kinston

257 Stoppers, rubber, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 86 employers in Kinston, 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 Gates-Columbia MO 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cooper Standard Industrial Specialty Group 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seal Master Corp. 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR ALL-STATE INDUSTRIES, INC. ELK GROVE VILLAGE, IL 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ingersoll Rand 348 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hitachi Astemo Greenfield LLC 348 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1191 348 FTE
STATE-SIZE OceanX ANC 348 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sanderson Farms Kinston Processing 1,564 FTE
CITY-NEAR Caswell Developmental Center 1,256 FTE
CITY-NEAR UNC Lenoir Health Care 843 FTE
CITY-NEAR UNC Health Lenoir 744 FTE
NAT-TCR Fort Bend County Landfill 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Larson Davis 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR MACOM Santa Clara 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Limon Headquarters 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Terex USA, LLC 348 FTE
NAT-SIZE OHM Laboratories (Terminal Road) 348 FTE
NAT-SIZE Whiteside County Administrator 348 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advanced Atomization Technologies 348 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, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.