Broadcast equipment (including studio), for radio and television, manufacturing · North Carolina

Apex

Apex, NC · ~298 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Apex runs at 48% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Broadcast equipment (including studio), for radio and television, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Apex: 1.6 TCR = 48% of Broadcast equipment (including studio), for radio and television, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Apex safety composite

Apex scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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).

D

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
F 0.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.9

2016→2024

Apex injury rate improved

Apex's TCR fell 5.9 from 7.1 in 2016 to 1.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.1 · 2017=0.3 · 2018=0.9 · 2019=1.7 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.6 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 334220 · Apex, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 48% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #2/7
  • PHOTO MD26
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~298 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MD26 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Apex in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Apex averages 1.6 TCR (48% of the Broadcast equipment (including studio), for radio and television, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Apex TCR series: 2016=7.1 · 2017=0.3 · 2018=0.9 · 2019=1.7 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0.6 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=1.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Apex falls in its industry

247 Broadcast equipment (including establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 7 Broadcast equipment (including employers in North Carolina.

Apex (298 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 115 employees and a TCR of 1.1 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Apex
Apex (298 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 115 employees and a TCR of 1.1

Apex has more employees than the Broadcast equipment (including studio), median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.1. 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
2024 1.1 0.8 3 0 0
2023 2.6 2.2 6 0 0
2022 0.6 0.6 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 1.7 0.7 5 0 0
2018 0.9 0.2 4 0 0
2017 0.3 0.0 1 0 0
2016 7.1 5.3 10 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

334220 · NC · Apex

247 Broadcast equipment (including studio), for radio and television, manufacturing 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 MD26 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR R. F. Technologies, Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR RELM 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR CE Electronics 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wegmans Chapel Hill 140 298 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6458-ZECA 298 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Carolina Specialty Hospital 298 FTE
STATE-SIZE Administrative Services 298 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 Jefferson Reels - A810 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Eagle #4601 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Apm Hexseal Corporation 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR CB Monroe 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE E.T. Simonds Construction Compay 298 FTE
NAT-SIZE Invista Orange Site 298 FTE
NAT-SIZE PEPCO-Forestville Service Center 298 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tulsa Manufacturing Plant 298 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.