Structural steel erecting or iron work contractors · North Carolina

Ds Duggins Welding

Winston Salem, NC · ~37 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ds Duggins Welding runs at 91% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Structural steel erecting or iron work contractors workplace, earning a grade C.

Ds Duggins Welding: 2.5 TCR = 91% of Structural steel erecting or iron work contractors BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ds Duggins Welding safety composite

Ds Duggins Welding scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−0.6

2017→2021

Ds Duggins Welding injury rate improved

Ds Duggins Welding's TCR fell 0.6 from 3.1 in 2017 to 2.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.1 · 2018=4.6 · 2019=0.0 · 2021=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238120 · Winston Salem, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.5 · 91% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #11/21
  • PHOTO TGR Erectors
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TGR Erectors (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ds Duggins Welding in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ds Duggins Welding averages 2.5 TCR (91% of the Structural steel erecting or iron work contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Ds Duggins Welding TCR series: 2017=3.1 · 2018=4.6 · 2019=0 · 2021=2.5 · BLS 2.8

Where Ds Duggins Welding falls in its industry

705 Structural steel erecting or i establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 21 Structural steel erecting or i employers in North Carolina.

Ds Duggins Welding (37 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 050100150200250 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Ds Duggins Welding
Ds Duggins Welding (37 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Ds Duggins Welding has fewer employees than the Structural steel erecting or iron work c median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2021 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 4.6 0.0 2 0 0
2017 3.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238120 · NC · Winston Salem

705 Structural steel erecting or iron work contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 255 employers in Winston Salem, 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 TGR Erectors 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR PA Plant 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR WOODYS REBAR CO INC 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR CARR PRECAST CONCRETE INC. 2.5 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 WFBMC - Winston Campus 13,298 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wake Forest University Health Sciences 3,280 FTE
CITY-NEAR Inmar - 9040 Team Support Center 1,813 FTE
CITY-NEAR Inmar - Team Support Center 859 FTE
NAT-TCR Southern Designs & Gifts, LLC 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Fremont-Prefab 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Office Depot Mrkpl 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Baker Products 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE A&L Sheet Metal 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cedar Rapids Linn County Solid Waste Agency 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE NIS, LLC Davenport 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Derby Industries LLC Cleveland 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: 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.