Storage Battery Manufacturing · North Carolina

Winston-Salem NC

Kernersville, NC · ~413 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Winston-Salem NC runs at 40% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Storage Battery Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Winston-Salem NC: 1.3 TCR = 40% of Storage Battery Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Winston-Salem NC safety composite

Winston-Salem NC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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).

D

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

Winston-Salem NC: 1.1 → 1.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 1.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.39× in 2022

Winston-Salem NC's TCR rose 0.5 from 1.1 in 2020 to 1.5 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 335911 · Kernersville, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 40% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO Sunlight Batteries USA
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~413 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sunlight Batteries USA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Winston-Salem NC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Winston-Salem NC averages 1.3 TCR (40% of the Storage Battery Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Winston-Salem NC TCR series: 2020=1.1 · 2022=1.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Winston-Salem NC falls in its industry

161 Storage Battery Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

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 4 Storage Battery Manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

Winston-Salem NC (413 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 02,0004,0006,0008,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Winston-Salem NC
Winston-Salem NC (413 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Winston-Salem NC has more employees than the Storage Battery Manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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
2022 1.5 0.5 6 0 1
2020 1.1 0.6 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

335911 · NC · Kernersville

161 Storage Battery Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 93 employers in Kernersville, 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 Sunlight Batteries USA 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR EaglePicher Technologies - Pittsburg 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saft America Inc 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Portland OR 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Foodservice : HUNTERSVILLE 413 FTE
STATE-SIZE Black Mountain Neuro Medical Traetment Center 413 FTE
STATE-SIZE Villari Bros. Foods 412 FTE
STATE-SIZE Albemarle Corporation- Charlotte 412 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6458-GRNB 1,399 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - GSO1 968 FTE
CITY-NEAR 274 797 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Kernersville 782 FTE
NAT-TCR Dexcom, Inc San Diego 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Bed Bath and Beyond Houston 88 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR DBM Main 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR MedImmune 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Carpentry Contractors Company 413 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1001 - Tustin Ca Whse 413 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6458-ZKNO 413 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6458-ZNOK 413 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: 2022, 2020. 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.