Heavy Highway Equipment and Manufacturing Traffic Control Devices Pavement Marking Sign Install Sales and Rental Equipment Railroad and Utility · North Carolina

4340 - Apex

Apex, NC · ~81 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

4340 - Apex runs at 356% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Heavy Highway Equipment and Manufacturing Traffic Control Devices Pavement Marking Sign Install Sales and Rental Equipment Railroad and Utility workplace, earning a grade F.

4340 - Apex: 10.0 TCR = 356% of Heavy Highway Equipment and Manufacturing Traffic Control Devices Pavement Marking Sign Install Sales and Rental Equipment Railroad and Utility BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

4340 - Apex safety composite

4340 - Apex scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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).

F

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

4340 - Apex: 9.5 → 10.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.94× in 2024

4340 - Apex's TCR rose 0.9 from 9.5 in 2023 to 10.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Apex, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.0 · 356% of ind

  • DART 9.4 DART
  • RANK #111/120
  • PHOTO R2- Salem Campus Bld…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~81 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: R2- Salem Campus Bldg P (0.0 TCR gap)

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4340 - Apex in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 4340 - Apex averages 10.0 TCR (356% of the Heavy Highway Equipment and Manufacturing Traffic Control Devices Pavement Marking Sign Install Sales and Rental Equipment Railroad and Utility BLS benchmark).

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

4340 - Apex TCR series: 2023=9.5 · 2024=10.4 · BLS 2.8

Where 4340 - Apex falls in its industry

4,078 Heavy Highway Equipment and Ma establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #111 safest of 120 Heavy Highway Equipment and Ma employers in North Carolina.

4340 - Apex (81 employees, TCR 10.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate 4340 - Apex
4340 - Apex (81 employees, TCR 10.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

4340 - Apex has more employees than the Heavy Highway Equipment and Manufacturin median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 10.4 9.4 10 0 0
2023 9.5 7.2 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · NC · Apex

4,078 Heavy Highway Equipment and Manufacturing Traffic Control Devices Pavement Marking Sign Install Sales and Rental Equipment Railroad and Utility employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 92 employers in Apex, 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 R2- Salem Campus Bldg P 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR FBD VANGUARD CONSTRUCTION, INC. 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR AIMM American Infrastructure Maintenance Management 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grose Construction Company Inc. 10.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Battleboro Ag Partnership 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Concord Electric 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fayetteville Resource Center PNG 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pike Gas Services, LLC South Carolina Statewide Operations 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR Apex Tool Group - Apex Operation 457 FTE
CITY-NEAR Apex Tool Group - Apex Operations 445 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crowder Construction Company - Civil & Environmental Division 361 FTE
CITY-NEAR Donley's Concrete Group LLC 321 FTE
NAT-TCR Txpor - Port Arthur 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ohday - Dayton 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sievers Equipment Company-Hamel 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Clements Foods Co 10.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fickling Brothers, Inc 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE WFI International 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Petland Inc. 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tennessee Tool & Engineering, Inc. 81 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.