Pottery, Ceramics, and Plumbing Fixture Manufacturing · North Carolina

Du-Co Ceramics Company, SCI

Monroe, NC · ~26 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Du-Co Ceramics Company, SCI runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Pottery, Ceramics, and Plumbing Fixture Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Du-Co Ceramics Company, SCI: 0.9 TCR = 28% of Pottery, Ceramics, and Plumbing Fixture Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Du-Co Ceramics Company, SCI safety composite

Du-Co Ceramics Company, SCI scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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

−3.9

2017→2024

Du-Co Ceramics Company, SCI injury rate improved

Du-Co Ceramics Company, SCI's TCR fell 3.9 from 4.2 in 2017 to 0.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.2 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327110 · Monroe, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 28% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P91
  • PHOTO Morgan Advanced Cera…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Morgan Advanced Ceramics, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Du-Co Ceramics Company, SCI in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Du-Co Ceramics Company, SCI averages 0.9 TCR (28% of the Pottery, Ceramics, and Plumbing Fixture Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Du-Co Ceramics Company, SCI TCR series: 2017=4.2 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Du-Co Ceramics Company, SCI falls in its industry

109 Pottery, Ceramics, and Plumbin establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Du-Co Ceramics Company, SCI (26 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 88 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Du-Co Ceramics Company, SCI
Du-Co Ceramics Company, SCI (26 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 88 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Du-Co Ceramics Company, SCI has fewer employees than the Pottery, Ceramics, and Plumbing Fixture median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 0.4 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 4.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327110 · NC · Monroe

109 Pottery, Ceramics, and Plumbing Fixture Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 163 employers in Monroe, 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 Morgan Advanced Ceramics, Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Toto USA Morrow Plant 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trans-Tech Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coorstek 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE R. A. Wood Farms, Inc. 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yarbrough Farms LLC 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE SOUTH LNM- EST 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Case Farms Goldsboro Hatchery 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monroe Plant 1,584 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0060-CHS Union 1,214 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0060-Atrium Health Union 1,147 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1108-Atrium Health Union (1108) 1,041 FTE
NAT-TCR Aldridge Electric 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Smiths Interconnect - Stuart 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR PNL80 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Brent Scarbrough & Company 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE TF 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE CP&P Charleston Pipe 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yorke 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE A and A Painting & Construction Inc 26 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, 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.