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
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).
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
- This site
4340 - Apex
10 TCR
- R2- Salem Camp
R2- Salem Campus Bldg P
10 TCR
- FBD VANGUARD C
FBD VANGUARD CONSTRUCTION, INC.
10 TCR
- AIMM American
AIMM American Infrastructure Maintenance Management
10 TCR
- Grose Construc
Grose Construction Company Inc.
10 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).
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 establishmentsSafer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.
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 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 →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.