Badges, fabric, manufacturing · North Carolina

William Barnet & Son

Kinston, NC · ~179 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

William Barnet & Son runs at 27% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Badges, fabric, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

William Barnet & Son: 0.9 TCR = 27% of Badges, fabric, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

William Barnet & Son safety composite

William Barnet & Son scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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

William Barnet & Son: 0.5 → 1.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 1.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.6× in 2024

William Barnet & Son's TCR rose 0.5 from 0.5 in 2021 to 1.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 1.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 314999 · Kinston, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 27% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #2/6
  • PHOTO Buff and Shine Manuf…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~179 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Buff and Shine Manufacturing (0.0 TCR gap)

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William Barnet & Son in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows William Barnet & Son averages 0.9 TCR (27% of the Badges, fabric, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

William Barnet & Son TCR series: 2021=0.5 · 2022=0.5 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=1.1 · BLS 3.3

Where William Barnet & Son falls in its industry

89 Badges, fabric, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

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 Badges, fabric, manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

William Barnet & Son (179 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate William Barnet & Son
William Barnet & Son (179 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.1

William Barnet & Son has more employees than the Badges, fabric, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2024 1.1 0.5 1 1 0
2023 1.5 0.0 3 0 0
2022 0.5 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

314999 · NC · Kinston

89 Badges, fabric, 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 Buff and Shine Manufacturing 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pecata Enterprises 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Milliken - Columbia Plant 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Reliance Industries 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE 4043_7766 179 FTE
STATE-SIZE R-Anell Housing Group, LLC 179 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6711 Lexington 179 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mayflower Vehicle Systems LLC 179 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 Crafco, Inc. - Dekalb 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR County Fair Food Stores - Dell Rapids 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Campbell Cabinet Co 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Slater Painting Company 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pineland Farms Potato Company 179 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Greenwood Village 179 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chicago Sales 179 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coke Northeast - EHP 179 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. 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.