Barge sections, prefabricated metal, manufacturing · North Carolina

Dave Steel Co Inc - Asheville

Name: Dave Steel Co Inc - Asheville Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Asheville, NC · ~77 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 4.7
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Dave Steel Co Inc - Asheville runs at 143% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Barge sections, prefabricated metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Dave Steel Co Inc - Asheville: 4.7 TCR = 143% of Barge sections, prefabricated metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dave Steel Co Inc - Asheville safety composite

Dave Steel Co Inc - Asheville scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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).

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 4.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers
DART rate: F 6.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

Dave Steel Co Inc - Asheville: 2.5 → 6.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.46× in 2024

Dave Steel Co Inc - Asheville's TCR rose 4.4 from 2.5 in 2023 to 6.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Asheville, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 143% of ind

DART 6.9 DART
RANK #26/41
PHOTO Swager Communication…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 8 inj
SIZE ~77 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Swager Communications, Inc. - Main (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Dave Steel Co Inc - Asheville averages 4.7 TCR (143% of the Barge sections, prefabricated metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Dave Steel Co Inc - Asheville TCR series: 2023=2.5 · 2024=6.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Dave Steel Co Inc - Asheville falls in its industry

1,491 Barge sections, prefabricated establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 41 Barge sections, prefabricated employers in North Carolina.

Dave Steel Co Inc - Asheville (77 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Dave Steel Co Inc - Asheville has more employees than the Barge sections, prefabricated metal, man median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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	6.9	6.9	6	0	0
2023	2.5	2.5	2	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · NC · Asheville

1,491 Barge sections, prefabricated metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 290 employers in Asheville, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Swager Communications, Inc. - Main	FREMONT, IN	4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	CAID Industries	TUCSON, AZ	4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	CMC Rebar Louisville	LOUISVILLE, KY	4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	V&S Schuler Tubular Products LLC	MUSKOGEE, OK	4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Rutherford-Polk	FOREST CITY	77 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Triangle Warehouse	RALEIGH	77 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Water Resources	NEW BERN	77 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Raleigh Asphalt Operations	RALEIGH	77 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mission Hospital; MH Hospital Manager, LLC	Asheville	8,097 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Biltmore Workforce Management	Asheville	1,894 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mission Medical Associates	Asheville	1,336 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Community Care Partners	Asheville	1,018 FTE
NAT-TCR	Giant Food Stores 6513	Maple Glen, PA	4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Nyalb - Albany	Latham, NY	4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Cold Storage Manufacturing, Inc.	Union City, CA	4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Summit Plastics Inc	Summit, MS	4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Pemberton LLC	Longwood, FL	77 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Custom Pultrusions, Inc.	Aurora, OH	77 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Olathe Grease Plant	Olathe, KS	77 FTE
NAT-SIZE	JKL Associates, Inc	Billings, MT	77 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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