Cold forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished · North Carolina

Blue Ridge Metals Corp.

Fletcher, NC · ~123 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Blue Ridge Metals Corp. runs at 188% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cold forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished workplace, earning a grade D.

Blue Ridge Metals Corp.: 6.2 TCR = 188% of Cold forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blue Ridge Metals Corp. safety composite

Blue Ridge Metals Corp. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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).

D

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−3.3

2018→2022

Blue Ridge Metals Corp. injury rate improved

Blue Ridge Metals Corp.'s TCR fell 3.3 from 7.6 in 2018 to 4.3 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.1 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=7.6 · 2019=8.1 · 2020=4.7 · 2022=4.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332111 · Fletcher, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 188% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO New England Industreis
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~123 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: New England Industreis (0.1 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · North Carolina employers → · Look up another →

Blue Ridge Metals Corp. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blue Ridge Metals Corp. averages 6.2 TCR (188% of the Cold forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS benchmark).

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

Blue Ridge Metals Corp. TCR series: 2018=7.6 · 2019=8.1 · 2020=4.7 · 2022=4.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Blue Ridge Metals Corp. falls in its industry

241 Cold forgings made from purcha establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 5 Cold forgings made from purcha employers in North Carolina.

Blue Ridge Metals Corp. (123 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Blue Ridge Metals Corp.
Blue Ridge Metals Corp. (123 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0

Blue Ridge Metals Corp. has more employees than the Cold forgings made from purchased iron o median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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
2022 4.3 4.3 3 0 0
2020 4.7 4.7 5 0 0
2019 8.1 3.4 11 1 0
2018 7.6 4.7 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332111 · NC · Fletcher

241 Cold forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 52 employers in Fletcher, 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 New England Industreis 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR DSI Wellington 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Martin Sprocket & Gear 20 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Forged Components, Inc. - Navasota 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Hamlin Companies 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE USA NC High Point 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Evergreen Packaging - Raleigh 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sealed air Lenoir 123 FTE
CITY-NEAR Meritor Fletcher 622 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wilsonart LLC 613 FTE
CITY-NEAR Continental Automotive Systems 610 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wilsonart Fletcher NC 581 FTE
NAT-TCR 4765-IAHCX9575 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Scholastic Inc. - Jefferson City 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 9277-120 Beaver Creek Resort 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 403889-Hil-Hillsboro Anx 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sabetha Feed Plant 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gulf Stream Plant 53 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pavestone - TPAP 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lep Special Fasteners 123 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: 2022, 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.