Electrical signs manufacturing · North Carolina

Burton Signworks, Inc.

Mount Airy, NC · ~58 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Burton Signworks, Inc. runs at 215% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Electrical signs manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Burton Signworks, Inc.: 7.1 TCR = 215% of Electrical signs manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Burton Signworks, Inc. safety composite

Burton Signworks, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

−1.2

2018→2020

Burton Signworks, Inc. injury rate improved

Burton Signworks, Inc.'s TCR fell 1.2 from 8.5 in 2018 to 7.4 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.5 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=8.5 · 2019=5.4 · 2020=7.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339950 · Mount Airy, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.1 · 215% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/9
  • PHOTO SignArt Co., Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SignArt Co., Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Burton Signworks, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Burton Signworks, Inc. averages 7.1 TCR (215% of the Electrical signs manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Burton Signworks, Inc. TCR series: 2018=8.5 · 2019=5.4 · 2020=7.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Burton Signworks, Inc. falls in its industry

405 Electrical signs manufacturing establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

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 9 Electrical signs manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

Burton Signworks, Inc. (58 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Burton Signworks, Inc.
Burton Signworks, Inc. (58 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Burton Signworks, Inc. has more employees than the Electrical signs manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2020 7.4 0.0 3 0 0
2019 5.4 5.4 2 1 0
2018 8.5 3.6 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339950 · NC · Mount Airy

405 Electrical signs manufacturing 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 SignArt Co., Inc. 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chapa Ventures 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Image360 Plymouth 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Patrick's Signs Meade 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wilmington North Operations Complex 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Administration 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE TMI Services, Inc. 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE North State Environmental 58 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 Kepler Masonry 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR CBO Warwick 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 1107 LKQ Melborne-1107-Pompano Depot 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Construction 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Construction 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE El Toro Store 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cole-Parmer Instrument Company LLC 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate 58 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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