Cold rolling steel shapes (e.g., bar, plate, rod, sheet, strip) made from purchased steel · North Carolina

Grass America, Inc.

Kernersville, NC · ~214 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Grass America, Inc. runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Cold rolling steel shapes (e.g., bar, plate, rod, sheet, strip) made from purchased steel workplace, earning a grade A.

Grass America, Inc.: 1.1 TCR = 32% of Cold rolling steel shapes (e.g., bar, plate, rod, sheet, strip) made from purchased steel BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Grass America, Inc. safety composite

Grass America, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.7

2018→2024

Grass America, Inc. injury rate improved

Grass America, Inc.'s TCR fell 0.7 from 1.3 in 2018 to 0.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 1.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=1.3 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=1.0 · 2024=0.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331221 · Kernersville, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 32% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK P91
  • PHOTO USS POSCO INDUSTRIES…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~214 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: USS POSCO INDUSTRIES, INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Grass America, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Grass America, Inc. averages 1.1 TCR (32% of the Cold rolling steel shapes (e.g., bar, plate, rod, sheet, strip) made from purchased steel BLS benchmark).

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

Grass America, Inc. TCR series: 2018=1.3 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=1 · 2024=0.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Grass America, Inc. falls in its industry

206 Cold rolling steel shapes (e.g establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Grass America, Inc. (214 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Grass America, Inc.
Grass America, Inc. (214 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Grass America, Inc. has more employees than the Cold rolling steel shapes (e.g., bar, pl 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
2024 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2023 1.0 0.5 2 0 0
2022 1.4 0.9 3 0 0
2018 1.3 0.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331221 · NC · Kernersville

206 Cold rolling steel shapes (e.g., bar, plate, rod, sheet, strip) made from purchased steel employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 93 employers in Kernersville, 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 USS POSCO INDUSTRIES, INC 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SSAB Texas Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nucor Cold Finish 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Bedford Operations 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE BU 3435_9156 - Lane-Blythe_ I 540-Expense 214 FTE
STATE-SIZE USA NC Charlotte Southern 214 FTE
STATE-SIZE Superior Cranes, Inc 214 FTE
STATE-SIZE Circle Graphics - Raleigh 10700 214 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6458-GRNB 1,399 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - GSO1 968 FTE
CITY-NEAR 274 797 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Kernersville 782 FTE
NAT-TCR Moody Price, LLC 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR DC Building Group, LLC 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR PRIDE Electric 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Humphrey Company, Ltd. 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hayward HUB 214 FTE
NAT-SIZE KidsPeace Corporation 214 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sherman Oaks Health & Rehabilitation Center 214 FTE
NAT-SIZE Indianapolis South in - 3084 214 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, 2018. 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.