COMPONENT PLANT · North Carolina

Carter Component Plant 540

Lexington, NC · ~113 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Carter Component Plant 540 runs at 206% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical COMPONENT PLANT workplace, earning a grade F.

Carter Component Plant 540: 6.8 TCR = 206% of COMPONENT PLANT BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carter Component Plant 540 safety composite

Carter Component Plant 540 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

−4.7

2018→2024

Carter Component Plant 540 injury rate improved

Carter Component Plant 540's TCR fell 4.7 from 7.8 in 2018 to 3.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 23.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=7.8 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=4.7 · 2021=0.8 · 2022=4.9 · 2023=23.7 · 2024=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321214 · Lexington, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.8 · 206% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #14/18
  • PHOTO Indevco, Inc., d/b/a…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 40 inj
  • SIZE ~113 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Indevco, Inc., d/b/a Mid America Truss (0.0 TCR gap)

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Carter Component Plant 540 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carter Component Plant 540 averages 6.8 TCR (206% of the COMPONENT PLANT BLS benchmark).

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

Carter Component Plant 540 TCR series: 2018=7.8 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=4.7 · 2021=0.8 · 2022=4.9 · 2023=23.7 · 2024=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Carter Component Plant 540 falls in its industry

421 COMPONENT PLANT establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 18 COMPONENT PLANT employers in North Carolina.

Carter Component Plant 540 (113 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 7.0 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 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Carter Component Plant 540
Carter Component Plant 540 (113 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 7.0

Carter Component Plant 540 has more employees than the COMPONENT PLANT median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.0. 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 3.2 2.1 6 0 0
2023 23.7 10.2 14 0 0
2022 4.9 4.9 8 0 0
2021 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2020 4.7 2.4 4 0 0
2019 2.4 1.2 2 0 0
2018 7.8 0.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321214 · NC · Lexington

421 COMPONENT PLANT employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 120 employers in Lexington, 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 Indevco, Inc., d/b/a Mid America Truss 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR TRUSS SPECIALISTS, INC. 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABC Truss - Chetek 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR A-1 INDUSTRIES OF FLORIDA, INC 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pike Louisiana Statewide Operations 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE :ightserve Corporation 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Airo Mechanical 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE FESS Fire Protection 113 FTE
CITY-NEAR Davidson County Schools 3,351 FTE
CITY-NEAR Davidson County Government 1,237 FTE
CITY-NEAR Atrium Windows & Door 910 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASCO Power Technologies 639 FTE
NAT-TCR Jabil 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bret Achtenhagen's Seasonal Services 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Panke - New Kensington 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Building 1 & 2 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fire Stations 1-6 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE East Glen 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Walnut Village 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vista Del Monte 113 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, 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.