Fiber optic cable made from purchased fiber optic strand · North Carolina

Chase Granite Falls

Granite Falls, NC · ~105 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chase Granite Falls runs at 149% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fiber optic cable made from purchased fiber optic strand workplace, earning a grade D.

Chase Granite Falls: 4.9 TCR = 149% of Fiber optic cable made from purchased fiber optic strand BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chase Granite Falls safety composite

Chase Granite Falls scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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).

F

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Chase Granite Falls: 3.7 → 5.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.69× in 2019

Chase Granite Falls's TCR rose 1.5 from 3.7 in 2016 to 5.1 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.0 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 335921 · Granite Falls, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 149% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #15/15
  • PHOTO Sark Wire
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~105 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sark Wire (0.3 TCR gap)

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Chase Granite Falls in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chase Granite Falls averages 4.9 TCR (149% of the Fiber optic cable made from purchased fiber optic strand BLS benchmark).

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

Chase Granite Falls TCR series: 2016=3.7 · 2017=7 · 2018=4 · 2019=5.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Chase Granite Falls falls in its industry

49 Fiber optic cable made from pu establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

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 15 Fiber optic cable made from pu employers in North Carolina.

Chase Granite Falls (105 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 111 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 0200400600800 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Chase Granite Falls
Chase Granite Falls (105 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 111 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Chase Granite Falls has fewer employees than the Fiber optic cable made from purchased fi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2019 5.1 3.4 6 0 0
2018 4.0 3.0 4 0 0
2017 7.0 4.6 4 2 0
2016 3.7 2.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

335921 · NC · Granite Falls

49 Fiber optic cable made from purchased fiber optic strand employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 16 employers in Granite Falls, 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 Sark Wire 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR OFS Fitel, LLC. 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gulf Fiberoptics Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Light Connection, Inc. 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE UFO-Utilities 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE Omega Construction, Inc. 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE Curtin Trucking and Drainage Inc. 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advance Concrete 105 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 4410 295 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4410 280 FTE
CITY-NEAR Associated Hardwoods, Inc. 143 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hickory Falls Health&Rehab 140 FTE
NAT-TCR Superior Grocers # 130 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 4054-Abs 0021 4290 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Vcf 085 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 5472-Swy 0035 1620 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pigeon Forge Frontline / Margaritaville VC Sales 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4054-Abs 0016 3207 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prairie Ridge Middle School 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4054-Abs 0018 0591 105 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.