Gloves, knit, made in apparel knitting mills · North Carolina

Worldwide Protective Products

Wilkesboro, NC · ~204 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Worldwide Protective Products runs at 57% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Gloves, knit, made in apparel knitting mills workplace, earning a grade B.

Worldwide Protective Products: 1.9 TCR = 57% of Gloves, knit, made in apparel knitting mills BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Worldwide Protective Products safety composite

Worldwide Protective Products scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.5

2022→2024

Worldwide Protective Products injury rate improved

Worldwide Protective Products's TCR fell 3.5 from 3.5 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=3.5 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 315190 · Wilkesboro, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 57% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P54
  • PHOTO Carolina Apparel Gro…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~204 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Carolina Apparel Group, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Worldwide Protective Products in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Worldwide Protective Products averages 1.9 TCR (57% of the Gloves, knit, made in apparel knitting mills BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Worldwide Protective Products TCR series: 2022=3.5 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Worldwide Protective Products falls in its industry

13 Gloves, knit, made in apparel establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Worldwide Protective Products (204 employees, TCR 1.9) among 7 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 171 employees and a TCR of 2.1 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 8 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 050100150200250 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate Knit TextilesSchool Apparel, Inc.Andari Fashion Inc.L&W APPAREL CO INC dba LEGACY ATHLETICCarolina Apparel Group, Inc.Brooks Brothers Group - GarlandVolunteer Knitwear CorpWorldwide Protective Products
Worldwide Protective Products (204 employees, TCR 1.9) among 7 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 171 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Worldwide Protective Products has more employees than the Gloves, knit, made in apparel knitting m 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
2024 0.0 0.0 1 0 0
2023 2.2 2.2 0 4 0
2022 3.5 2.8 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

315190 · NC · Wilkesboro

13 Gloves, knit, made in apparel knitting mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 43 employers in Wilkesboro, 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 Carolina Apparel Group, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quake City Casuals, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hanesbrands 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Speedline Team Sports, Inc. 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Yellow Dot Heating and Air, LLC 204 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1794 - Raleigh NW 204 FTE
STATE-SIZE Autumn Care of Myrtle Grove 204 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sunday Money, LLC dba Home Instead Senior Care 204 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wilkesboro Fresh Plant 2,164 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wilkesboro Food Service Plant 312 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1290 308 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1290 304 FTE
NAT-TCR Grand Blanc 10244 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Lansing 10042 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Polymer Molding, Inc 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR UT Health Pittsburg 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE MORryde - Sterling 204 FTE
NAT-SIZE Panorama Gardens Nursing & Rehabilitation Center 204 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. John Rehabilitation Hospital, an affiliate of Encompass Health 204 FTE
NAT-SIZE FXI - West Chicago 204 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.