Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · North Carolina

Ascendum Machinery - Asheville

Mills River, NC · ~18 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ascendum Machinery - Asheville runs at 144% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Ascendum Machinery - Asheville: 3.2 TCR = 144% of Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ascendum Machinery - Asheville safety composite

Ascendum Machinery - Asheville scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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

−6.1

2018→2024

Ascendum Machinery - Asheville injury rate improved

Ascendum Machinery - Asheville's TCR fell 6.1 from 6.1 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 10.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=6.1 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=10.8 · 2021=5.3 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423810 · Mills River, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.2 · 144% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/8
  • PHOTO Road Machinery, LLC
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Road Machinery, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ascendum Machinery - Asheville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ascendum Machinery - Asheville averages 3.2 TCR (144% of the Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Ascendum Machinery - Asheville TCR series: 2018=6.1 · 2019=0 · 2020=10.8 · 2021=5.3 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Ascendum Machinery - Asheville falls in its industry

533 Construction machinery and equ establishments

Safer than 48% 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 #5 safest of 8 Construction machinery and equ employers in North Carolina.

Ascendum Machinery - Asheville (18 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ascendum Machinery - Asheville
Ascendum Machinery - Asheville (18 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Ascendum Machinery - Asheville has fewer employees than the Construction machinery and equipment mer 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 5.3 5.3 1 0 0
2020 10.8 0.0 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 6.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423810 · NC · Mills River

533 Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 33 employers in Mills River, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Road Machinery, LLC 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Postville 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR McCoy Construction & Forestry - Chippewa Falls 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 05-TTCO-MONTGOMERY 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pikeville 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sweet Potato Packing House 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Laurinburg 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buy Sod - Leggett 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR Linamar Light Metals-MR 566 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mills River 372 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPM Raflatac Mills River 280 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPM Raflatac, Inc 259 FTE
NAT-TCR La Crosse 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Platte Valley Energetics 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Traditional Medicinals 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR RhinoSystems, Inc. (Headquarters) 3.2 TCR

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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.