Concrete Work · North Carolina

Hard Rock Concrete Cutting

Apex, NC · ~23 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.8
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hard Rock Concrete Cutting runs at 385% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Concrete Work workplace, earning a grade F.

Hard Rock Concrete Cutting: 10.8 TCR = 385% of Concrete Work BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hard Rock Concrete Cutting safety composite

Hard Rock Concrete Cutting scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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).

F

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

−3.3

2018→2021

Hard Rock Concrete Cutting injury rate improved

Hard Rock Concrete Cutting's TCR fell 3.3 from 7.6 in 2018 to 4.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 15.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=7.6 · 2019=15.5 · 2020=15.8 · 2021=4.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238990 · Apex, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.8 · 385% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #40/40
  • PHOTO Northwest Tower Cran…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Northwest Tower Crane Service, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hard Rock Concrete Cutting in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hard Rock Concrete Cutting averages 10.8 TCR (385% of the Concrete Work BLS benchmark).

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

Hard Rock Concrete Cutting TCR series: 2018=7.6 · 2019=15.5 · 2020=15.8 · 2021=4.3 · BLS 2.8

Where Hard Rock Concrete Cutting falls in its industry

1,634 Concrete Work establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #40 safest of 40 Concrete Work employers in North Carolina.

Hard Rock Concrete Cutting (23 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hard Rock Concrete Cutting
Hard Rock Concrete Cutting (23 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Hard Rock Concrete Cutting has fewer employees than the Concrete Work median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 4.3 4.3 1 0 0
2020 15.8 3.9 4 0 0
2019 15.5 7.8 4 0 0
2018 7.6 7.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238990 · NC · Apex

1,634 Concrete Work employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 92 employers in Apex, 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 Northwest Tower Crane Service, Inc 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fence Consultants of West Michigan 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Split Rail Fence Company LLC 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Location 1 10.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farm 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE SOUTHERN PINES 1 SOW -EST 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cotton Gin 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monroe Growout 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Apex Tool Group - Apex Operation 457 FTE
CITY-NEAR Apex Tool Group - Apex Operations 445 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crowder Construction Company - Civil & Environmental Division 361 FTE
CITY-NEAR Donley's Concrete Group LLC 321 FTE
NAT-TCR Boydstun Equipment Manufacturing, LLC 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Freight Lines, Inc - Dallas 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 5472-NAI-0034-0034-01096 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 079576-Westminster Po 10.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Shively Store 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Steven Cox Associates 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sioux City Showroom 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Post Warehouse Corporation 23 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, 2020, 2019, 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.