Stairway, metal, installation · North Carolina

Carolina Fab Inc

Mount Holly, NC · ~33 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Carolina Fab Inc runs at 60% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Stairway, metal, installation workplace, earning a grade B.

Carolina Fab Inc: 1.7 TCR = 60% of Stairway, metal, installation BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carolina Fab Inc safety composite

Carolina Fab Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

−2.8

2020→2024

Carolina Fab Inc injury rate improved

Carolina Fab Inc's TCR fell 2.8 from 2.8 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=2.8 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=5.6 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238190 · Mount Holly, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 60% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO SHORCO, INC.
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SHORCO, INC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Carolina Fab Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carolina Fab Inc averages 1.7 TCR (60% of the Stairway, metal, installation BLS benchmark).

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

Carolina Fab Inc TCR series: 2020=2.8 · 2021=0 · 2022=5.6 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Carolina Fab Inc falls in its industry

166 Stairway, metal, installation establishments

Safer than 77% 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 #2 safest of 4 Stairway, metal, installation employers in North Carolina.

Carolina Fab Inc (33 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Carolina Fab Inc
Carolina Fab Inc (33 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Carolina Fab Inc has fewer employees than the Stairway, metal, installation median and a lower 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 5.6 2.8 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 2.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238190 · NC · Mount Holly

166 Stairway, metal, installation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 23 employers in Mount Holly, 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 SHORCO, INC. 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Concrete Frame Associates : Concrete Frame Associates 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR MCM Management Corporation 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR MID-SOUTH MAINTENANCE, INC 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Scott Brothers Inc 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Strickland Farms Payroll 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE James B. Morris Farms, Inc, 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE LTL, LLC 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mt. Holly 1,125 FTE
CITY-NEAR American & Efird Dyeing & Finishing Plant 15 393 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mount Holly Plant 154 FTE
CITY-NEAR American & Efird Gastonia Plant 20 154 FTE
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Fisk University 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Minnesota State Univ Mankato 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Integrated Power Services Litchfield Service Center 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Keith Titus Corp 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dyco Manufacturing, INC 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Douglas Construction 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Restoration Medical Polymers 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Davidson Oil Company 33 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.