Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing · North Carolina

Byers Precision Fabricators

Hendersonville, NC · ~37 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Byers Precision Fabricators runs at 102% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Byers Precision Fabricators: 3.4 TCR = 102% of Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Byers Precision Fabricators safety composite

Byers Precision Fabricators scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Byers Precision Fabricators: 3.1 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.09× in 2023

Byers Precision Fabricators's TCR rose 0.6 from 3.1 in 2022 to 3.7 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332322 · Hendersonville, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 102% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #15/37
  • PHOTO MECH-TRONICS, LIMITE…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MECH-TRONICS, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP (0.0 TCR gap)

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Byers Precision Fabricators in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Byers Precision Fabricators averages 3.4 TCR (102% of the Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Byers Precision Fabricators TCR series: 2022=3.1 · 2023=3.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Byers Precision Fabricators falls in its industry

1,158 Air cowls, sheet metal (except establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 37 Air cowls, sheet metal (except employers in North Carolina.

Byers Precision Fabricators (37 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Byers Precision Fabricators
Byers Precision Fabricators (37 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Byers Precision Fabricators has fewer employees than the Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2023 3.7 3.7 1 0 0
2022 3.1 3.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332322 · NC · Hendersonville

1,158 Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 90 employers in Hendersonville, 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 MECH-TRONICS, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Group Mfg- San Jose 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Evansville Sheet Metal Works, Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Indiana Harbor Dr 3.4 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 Park Ridge Health 1,172 FTE
CITY-NEAR AdventHealth Hendersonville 788 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1242 402 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1242 400 FTE
NAT-TCR Grocery Outlet of Novato 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR SEFA Transportation (Georgetown) 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR SolEpoxy 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Northampton, Ma 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tamalpais Commercial Cabinetry, Inc 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Western Equipment Manufacturing 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vibo Construction Inc. 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ttg Electric Co., Inc. 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.