Employer · North Carolina

721 - Apex

Apex, NC · ~100 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

721 - Apex runs at 70% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade B.

721 - Apex: 2.4 TCR = 70% of industry BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

721 - Apex safety composite

721 - Apex scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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%).

Rising injury rate

721 - Apex: 0.0 → 7.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 7.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2022

721 - Apex's TCR rose 7.9 from 0.0 in 2016 to 7.9 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452210 · Apex, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 70% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #30/68
  • PHOTO 958 Chula Vista South
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~100 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 958 Chula Vista South (0.0 TCR gap)

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721 - Apex in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 721 - Apex averages 2.4 TCR (70% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

721 - Apex TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=2.1 · 2018=0 · 2019=4.2 · 2020=0 · 2022=7.9 · BLS 3.4

Where 721 - Apex falls in its industry

2,917 industry establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 68 industry employers in North Carolina.

721 - Apex (100 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 721 - Apex
721 - Apex (100 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 3.1

721 - Apex has more employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 7.9 0.0 3 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 4.2 0.0 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 2.1 0.0 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452210 · NC · Apex

2,917 industry 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 958 Chula Vista South 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 983 San Jose South 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 992 Macon 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1118 Jefferson City 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Carolina Egg Company INC 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE PHRG CLT 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Samet Corporation - Raleigh 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE WIMCO Corp. 100 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 988 - Kingston 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 1021 - Auburn-ME 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 548 - Rancho Santa Margarita 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 487 - Edmond 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 727 - Arvada 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE 714 - Modesto 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE 698 - Conway 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE 559 - Huntsville 100 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, 2019, 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.