Bricks (i.e., common, face, glazed, hollow, vitrified), clay, manufacturing · North Carolina

General Shale Brick Salisbury

East Spencer, NC · ~74 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

General Shale Brick Salisbury runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Bricks (i.e., common, face, glazed, hollow, vitrified), clay, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

General Shale Brick Salisbury: 1.3 TCR = 39% of Bricks (i.e., common, face, glazed, hollow, vitrified), clay, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

General Shale Brick Salisbury safety composite

General Shale Brick Salisbury scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% 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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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%).

General Shale Brick Salisbury held a steady TCR band

General Shale Brick Salisbury's TCR held near 0.2 from 1.3 in 2021 to 1.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 1.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=1.3 · 2022=1.2 · 2023=1.6 · 2024=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327120 · East Spencer, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 39% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #1/9
  • PHOTO Mees Distributors Inc
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mees Distributors Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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General Shale Brick Salisbury in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows General Shale Brick Salisbury averages 1.3 TCR (39% of the Bricks (i.e., common, face, glazed, hollow, vitrified), clay, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

General Shale Brick Salisbury TCR series: 2021=1.3 · 2022=1.2 · 2023=1.6 · 2024=1.1 · BLS 3.3

Where General Shale Brick Salisbury falls in its industry

307 Bricks (i.e., common, face, gl establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

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 9 Bricks (i.e., common, face, gl employers in North Carolina.

General Shale Brick Salisbury (74 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate General Shale Brick Salisbury
General Shale Brick Salisbury (74 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 3.7

General Shale Brick Salisbury has more employees than the Bricks (i.e., common, face, glazed, holl median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2023 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2022 1.2 0.0 1 0 0
2021 1.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327120 · NC · East Spencer

307 Bricks (i.e., common, face, glazed, hollow, vitrified), clay, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 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 Mees Distributors Inc 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meridian Brick LLC-Salisbury 081/082/083- Meridian Brick LLC 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Imrie-Gielow, Inc 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meridian Bricks LLC-Terre Haute-Meridian Brick 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Worthington Farms 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE BLUE VIEW INC 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6271-508 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Baker Residential 74 FTE
NAT-TCR PACE Supply Corporate Office 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Administration Building 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Golden Valley East 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Marks Powders, Inc 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rhino Cable Services, Inc. 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE OCME establishment 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ameri-Kleen - Kentucky Branch 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eaton Steel Bar Company 74 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.