Filters (e.g., air, engine oil, fuel) automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · North Carolina

Wix Allen Plant

Gastonia, NC · ~931 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wix Allen Plant runs at 37% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Filters (e.g., air, engine oil, fuel) automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Wix Allen Plant: 2.0 TCR = 37% of Filters (e.g., air, engine oil, fuel) automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wix Allen Plant safety composite

Wix Allen Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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

Wix Allen Plant: 1.6 → 2.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 2.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.86× in 2018

Wix Allen Plant's TCR rose 1.1 from 1.6 in 2016 to 2.7 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336390 · Gastonia, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 2.0 · 37% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #9/24
  • PHOTO DexSys
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 58 inj
  • SIZE ~931 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DexSys (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wix Allen Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wix Allen Plant averages 2.0 TCR (37% of the Filters (e.g., air, engine oil, fuel) automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Wix Allen Plant TCR series: 2016=1.6 · 2017=1.7 · 2018=2.7 · BLS 5.4

Where Wix Allen Plant falls in its industry

772 Filters (e.g., air, engine oil establishments

Safer than 72% 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 #9 safest of 24 Filters (e.g., air, engine oil employers in North Carolina.

Wix Allen Plant (931 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 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 Wix Allen Plant
Wix Allen Plant (931 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Wix Allen Plant has more employees than the Filters (e.g., air, engine oil, fuel) au 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
2018 2.7 1.7 27 1 0
2017 1.7 0.8 15 3 0
2016 1.6 1.1 16 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336390 · NC · Gastonia

772 Filters (e.g., air, engine oil, fuel) automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 182 employers in Gastonia, 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 DexSys 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR DENSO Manufacturing North Carolina, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Technique Chassis 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR CFN 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Thomas Built Buses (C2) 931 FTE
STATE-SIZE ATI Specialty Materials - Monroe 930 FTE
STATE-SIZE Huntersville Field Support Center 929 FTE
STATE-SIZE GREENSBORO_1441334 934 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston Memorial Hospital, Incorporated d/b/a CaroMont Regional Medical Center 3,156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston County Government 1,711 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gastonia Components and Logistics - Tulip 912 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stabilus, Inc. 497 FTE
NAT-TCR Pace industries, Harrison Division 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Shopko Store #50 (Fond Du Lac, WI) 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Parkway Products Cobb Georgia 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR MNA - Wisconsin 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE George's Edinburg Processing Plant 931 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilmar Site & HIC 931 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crossways 931 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advocate Trinity Hospital 931 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.