Repair, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway · North Carolina

Applied Polymerics, Inc.

Mount Airy, NC · ~77 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Applied Polymerics, Inc. runs at 195% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Repair, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway workplace, earning a grade D.

Applied Polymerics, Inc.: 5.5 TCR = 195% of Repair, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway BLS 2.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Applied Polymerics, Inc. safety composite

Applied Polymerics, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−16.4

2016→2024

Applied Polymerics, Inc. injury rate improved

Applied Polymerics, Inc.'s TCR fell 16.4 from 19.7 in 2016 to 3.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 19.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=19.7 · 2018=5.0 · 2019=1.4 · 2020=4.2 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=3.3 · 2024=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Mount Airy, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 195% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #98/120
  • PHOTO Reynolds Sealing & S…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~77 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Reynolds Sealing & Striping (0.0 TCR gap)

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Applied Polymerics, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Applied Polymerics, Inc. averages 5.5 TCR (195% of the Repair, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway BLS benchmark).

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

Applied Polymerics, Inc. TCR series: 2016=19.7 · 2018=5 · 2019=1.4 · 2020=4.2 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=3.3 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 2.8

Where Applied Polymerics, Inc. falls in its industry

4,078 Repair, highway, road, street, establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #98 safest of 120 Repair, highway, road, street, employers in North Carolina.

Applied Polymerics, Inc. (77 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Applied Polymerics, Inc.
Applied Polymerics, Inc. (77 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Applied Polymerics, Inc. has more employees than the Repair, highway, road, street, bridge or median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 3.3 3.3 2 0 0
2023 3.3 3.3 2 0 0
2022 4.4 2.2 2 0 0
2021 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2020 4.2 2.1 1 1 0
2019 1.4 0.0 1 0 0
2018 5.0 2.5 4 0 0
2016 19.7 13.1 8 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · NC · Mount Airy

4,078 Repair, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 94 employers in Mount Airy, 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 Reynolds Sealing & Striping 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern Synergy LLC 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kinney Contractors Inc 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR TANGO CONSTRCTION, INC. 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rutherford-Polk 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Triangle Warehouse 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water Resources 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Raleigh Asphalt Operations 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pike Florida Statewide Operations 1,583 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pike North Carolina Statewide Operations 1,161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pike Georgia Statewide Operations 969 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pike Texas Statewide Operations 738 FTE
NAT-TCR Rim Manufacturing, LLC 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Advanced Masonry Restoration 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR LAX-D 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR J. L. Anderson Company, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ferdinand Inc 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bear Springs Hotel 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sheraton Albuquerque Uptown 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avantara Elgin 77 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, 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.