Chain hoists manufacturing · North Carolina

Duff-Norton Charlotte

Charlotte, NC · ~109 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Duff-Norton Charlotte runs at 36% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Chain hoists manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Duff-Norton Charlotte: 1.2 TCR = 36% of Chain hoists manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Duff-Norton Charlotte safety composite

Duff-Norton Charlotte scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% 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

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

−2.6

2020→2024

Duff-Norton Charlotte injury rate improved

Duff-Norton Charlotte's TCR fell 2.6 from 2.6 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 2.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=2.6 · 2021=1.7 · 2022=1.6 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333923 · Charlotte, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 36% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/7
  • PHOTO BBM Railway Equipmen…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~109 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BBM Railway Equipment, LLC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Duff-Norton Charlotte in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Duff-Norton Charlotte averages 1.2 TCR (36% of the Chain hoists manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Duff-Norton Charlotte TCR series: 2020=2.6 · 2021=1.7 · 2022=1.6 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Duff-Norton Charlotte falls in its industry

157 Chain hoists manufacturing establishments

Safer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 7 Chain hoists manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

Duff-Norton Charlotte (109 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Duff-Norton Charlotte
Duff-Norton Charlotte (109 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Duff-Norton Charlotte has more employees than the Chain hoists manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 1.6 1.6 2 0 0
2021 1.7 0.8 2 0 0
2020 2.6 2.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333923 · NC · Charlotte

157 Chain hoists manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 2,058 employers in Charlotte, 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 BBM Railway Equipment, LLC. 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Equipment Fabricators Inc 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbus McKinnon - Wadesboro 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unified 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Primoris T&D Services - Charlotte 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Graham 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mid Atlantic Infrastructure Systems Inc 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gaines and company Inc 109 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1101-Carolinas Medical Center (1101) 8,444 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0001-Carolinas Medical Center 8,032 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4795-AA-CLT-CHARLOTTE-CLT-TRML 7,295 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center 4,973 FTE
NAT-TCR J.F. Edwards Construction Company 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Exchange Street 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Abbeville 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR CNH Reman, LLC 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Valent Biosciences Osage 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Perfetto Contracting Co. Inc. 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hiller Chesapeake 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE 605-NiSource-Fort Wayne IN-Operating HQ 109 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. 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.