Primary smelting of copper · North Carolina

Ames Copper

Shelby, NC · ~54 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ames Copper runs at 282% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Primary smelting of copper workplace, earning a grade F.

Ames Copper: 9.3 TCR = 282% of Primary smelting of copper BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ames Copper safety composite

Ames Copper scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Ames Copper: 6.9 → 11.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.72× in 2024

Ames Copper's TCR rose 4.8 from 6.9 in 2023 to 11.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331410 · Shelby, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.3 · 282% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK P9
  • PHOTO US Zinc Clarksville …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: US Zinc Clarksville Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ames Copper in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ames Copper averages 9.3 TCR (282% of the Primary smelting of copper BLS benchmark).

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

Ames Copper TCR series: 2023=6.9 · 2024=11.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Ames Copper falls in its industry

57 Primary smelting of copper establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Ames Copper (54 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ames Copper
Ames Copper (54 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Ames Copper has fewer employees than the Primary smelting of copper median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2024 11.7 6.7 6 1 0
2023 6.9 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331410 · NC · Shelby

57 Primary smelting of copper employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 100 employers in Shelby, 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 US Zinc Clarksville Plant 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atscott Mfg 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Catalyst Refiners, Inc. 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR ASARCO LLC.-Amarillo Copper Refinery 9.2 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 1111-Atrium Health Cleveland (1111) 1,174 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6070 1,160 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0080-Atrium Health Cleveland 1,158 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0080-CHS Cleveland 1,093 FTE
NAT-TCR Crinc 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Washington Elementary 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Jackson Manor 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Carve - Inland Empire Hub 9.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Adventist HealthCare Germantown Emergency Center 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wagman Construction Inc. 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Redman Equipment & Manufacturing Company 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Briarwood Farms 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: 2024, 2023. 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.