Natural Gas Distribution · North Carolina

Apex Operations

Apex, NC · ~69 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Apex Operations runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Natural Gas Distribution workplace, earning a grade D.

Apex Operations: 1.5 TCR = 126% of Natural Gas Distribution BLS 1.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Apex Operations safety composite

Apex Operations scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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

−3.0

2022→2024

Apex Operations injury rate improved

Apex Operations's TCR fell 3.0 from 3.0 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=3.0 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221210 · Apex, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 1.5 · 126% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #19/46
  • PHOTO Kellogg Ave Operatio…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~69 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kellogg Ave Operations Facility (0.0 TCR gap)

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Apex Operations in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Apex Operations averages 1.5 TCR (126% of the Natural Gas Distribution BLS benchmark).

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

Apex Operations TCR series: 2022=3 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=0 · BLS 1.2

Where Apex Operations falls in its industry

1,153 Natural Gas Distribution establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 46 Natural Gas Distribution employers in North Carolina.

Apex Operations (69 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Apex Operations
Apex Operations (69 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Apex Operations has more employees than the Natural Gas Distribution median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 1.5 0.0 1 0 0
2022 3.0 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221210 · NC · Apex

1,153 Natural Gas Distribution 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 Kellogg Ave Operations Facility 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lawrence 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR GOLETA - 15 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbia Gas Crew Quarters 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE SOUTH RALEIGH OPERATIONS 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brunswick Regional Water & Sewer H2GO 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lendlease - Charlotte Office 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Guilford County - Animal Services 69 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 Maguire Company, Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Marshall Industrial Technologies 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Scandia Plastics / Pexco, LLC 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Shelby Materials 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Chesapeake Dist 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tortilleria Hermanos Reyes, Inc. 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Electro-Miniatures Corp. 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE FPM Heat Treating - Cherry Valley 69 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. 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.