Fabricated structural metal manufacturing · North Carolina

Alpha Plant

Gastonia, NC · ~54 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Alpha Plant runs at 205% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fabricated structural metal manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Alpha Plant: 6.8 TCR = 205% of Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Alpha Plant safety composite

Alpha Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.2

2016→2023

Alpha Plant injury rate improved

Alpha Plant's TCR fell 6.2 from 10.2 in 2016 to 3.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 17.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=10.2 · 2017=9.0 · 2018=17.3 · 2019=9.8 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=3.9 · 2023=3.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Gastonia, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.8 · 205% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #35/41
  • PHOTO RiAlto Mfg Inc
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RiAlto Mfg Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Alpha Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Alpha Plant averages 6.8 TCR (205% of the Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Alpha Plant TCR series: 2016=10.2 · 2017=9 · 2018=17.3 · 2019=9.8 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=3.9 · 2023=3.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Alpha Plant falls in its industry

1,491 Fabricated structural metal ma establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 41 Fabricated structural metal ma employers in North Carolina.

Alpha Plant (54 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Alpha Plant
Alpha Plant (54 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Alpha Plant has more employees than the Fabricated structural metal manufacturin median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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
2023 3.9 3.9 1 0 0
2022 3.9 3.9 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 9.8 9.8 4 0 0
2018 17.3 17.3 6 0 0
2017 9.0 9.0 3 0 0
2016 10.2 10.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · NC · Gastonia

1,491 Fabricated structural metal 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 RiAlto Mfg Inc 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR GCL Inc 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR M&J Steel, LLC 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Linita Design & Manufacturing., Corp 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE ER LEWIS CONSTRUCTION CO, INC. 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elizabethtown 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.R. Horton, Inc. - Raleigh North 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mundy Maintenance and Services LLC Job #31045 54 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 Wix Allen Plant 931 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gastonia Components and Logistics - Tulip 912 FTE
NAT-TCR South Coast Community Services 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Super Stop & Shop 0599 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 100637 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Stepstone, Inc 2 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mkg of Radford 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Morris Nursing Home 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Metropolitan Gravel Company Inc 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Russell Mechanical, Inc. 54 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 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.