Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · North Carolina

Ascendum Machinery - Charlotte

Name: Ascendum Machinery - Charlotte Workplace Safety Data
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Charlotte, NC · ~27 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 1.7
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Ascendum Machinery - Charlotte runs at 78% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Ascendum Machinery - Charlotte: 1.7 TCR = 78% of Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ascendum Machinery - Charlotte safety composite

Ascendum Machinery - Charlotte scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% 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).

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Ascendum Machinery - Charlotte: 0.0 → 3.4 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 3.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2019

Ascendum Machinery - Charlotte's TCR rose 3.4 from 0.0 in 2018 to 3.4 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423810 · Charlotte, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 78% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #3/8
PHOTO TEC 99
BOOK 2y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TEC 99 (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Ascendum Machinery - Charlotte averages 1.7 TCR (78% of the Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Ascendum Machinery - Charlotte TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=3.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Ascendum Machinery - Charlotte falls in its industry

533 Construction machinery and equ establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 8 Construction machinery and equ employers in North Carolina.

Ascendum Machinery - Charlotte (27 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Ascendum Machinery - Charlotte has fewer employees than the Construction machinery and equipment mer median and a lower 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
2019	3.4	0.0	1	0	0
2018	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423810 · NC · Charlotte

533 Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 2,058 employers in Charlotte, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	TEC 99	BIRMINGHAM, AL	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Jamestown Store	JAMESTOWN, ND	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	150 Tifton	TIFTON, GA	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Ohio CAT - Columbus PSD	COLUMBUS, OH	1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Bissette Farms, Inc	MIDDLESEX	27 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Hyde County Pullet Farm	PANTEGO	27 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Hyde County Pullet	PANTEGO	27 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Price Logging Inc	JAMESVILLE	27 FTE
CITY-NEAR	1101-Carolinas Medical Center (1101)	Charlotte	8,444 FTE
CITY-NEAR	0001-Carolinas Medical Center	Charlotte	8,032 FTE
CITY-NEAR	4795-AA-CLT-CHARLOTTE-CLT-TRML	Charlotte	7,295 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center	Charlotte	4,973 FTE
NAT-TCR	Citrus Park	Tampa, FL	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Kampack Newark	Newark, NJ	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Corporate	Albany, NY	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Park Boulevard Memory Care, LLC	Glen Ellyn, IL	1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Lexington Pipe	Lexington, KY	27 FTE
NAT-SIZE	AMEREN ILLINOIS - Effingham	Effingham, IL	27 FTE
NAT-SIZE	AMEREN ILLINOIS - North Pana	Pana, IL	27 FTE
NAT-SIZE	AMEREN ILLINOIS - Lincoln	Lincoln, IL	27 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: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.