Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · North Carolina

Ascendum Machinery - Charlotte

Concord, NC · ~37 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ascendum Machinery - Charlotte runs at 243% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Ascendum Machinery - Charlotte: 5.3 TCR = 243% of Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ascendum Machinery - Charlotte safety composite

Ascendum Machinery - Charlotte scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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

−5.6

2020→2024

Ascendum Machinery - Charlotte injury rate improved

Ascendum Machinery - Charlotte's TCR fell 5.6 from 9.6 in 2020 to 4.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 9.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=9.6 · 2021=3.1 · 2022=7.7 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423810 · Concord, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.3 · 243% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #8/8
  • PHOTO Ascendum Machinery- …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ascendum Machinery- Columbia (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ascendum Machinery - Charlotte in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ascendum Machinery - Charlotte averages 5.3 TCR (243% 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 - Charlotte TCR series: 2020=9.6 · 2021=3.1 · 2022=7.7 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=4 · BLS 2.2

Where Ascendum Machinery - Charlotte falls in its industry

533 Construction machinery and equ establishments

Safer than 18% 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 #8 safest of 8 Construction machinery and equ employers in North Carolina.

Ascendum Machinery - Charlotte (37 employees, TCR 5.3) 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 - Charlotte
Ascendum Machinery - Charlotte (37 employees, TCR 5.3) 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 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 4.0 2.0 2 0 0
2023 2.4 0.0 1 0 0
2022 7.7 2.6 3 0 0
2021 3.1 0.0 1 0 0
2020 9.6 6.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423810 · NC · Concord

533 Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 338 employers in Concord, 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 Ascendum Machinery- Columbia 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 01058-01-01-MERRILL 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Salt Lake City 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Hampton 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE CAR Greenhouse LLC 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Statesville Breeders 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dan River CT/CC 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE hep Petra, LLC 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1114-Atrium Health Cabarrus (1114) 3,087 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0070-CHS NorthEast 2,949 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0070-Atrium Health Cabarrus 2,870 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CLT3 1,263 FTE
NAT-TCR Ascendum Machinery- Columbia 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Northwest Construction 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Rapat Corporation 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Viking SupplyNet & Fabrication Services - Phoenix 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Winnebago Mfg Co 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Federal Reserve Bank Chicago 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Longs Peak Hospital 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Medstar Washington Hospital 37 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.