Blast furnace slag processing · North Carolina

Harsco Hertford

Cofield, NC · ~40 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Harsco Hertford runs at 80% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Blast furnace slag processing workplace, earning a grade B.

Harsco Hertford: 2.6 TCR = 80% of Blast furnace slag processing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Harsco Hertford safety composite

Harsco Hertford scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 37%), 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).

D

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Harsco Hertford: 0.0 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2021

Harsco Hertford's TCR rose 4.3 from 0.0 in 2018 to 4.3 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327992 · Cofield, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 80% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P37
  • PHOTO AluChem of Jackson
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AluChem of Jackson (0.0 TCR gap)

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Harsco Hertford in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Harsco Hertford averages 2.6 TCR (80% of the Blast furnace slag processing BLS benchmark).

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

Harsco Hertford TCR series: 2018=0 · 2020=3.6 · 2021=4.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Harsco Hertford falls in its industry

97 Blast furnace slag processing establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Harsco Hertford (40 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Harsco Hertford
Harsco Hertford (40 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Harsco Hertford has fewer employees than the Blast furnace slag processing 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 0.0 2 0 0
2020 3.6 1.8 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327992 · NC · Cofield

97 Blast furnace slag processing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 13 employers in Cofield, 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 AluChem of Jackson 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Minerals & Properties DBA Cimbar Performance Minerals 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR REC Silicon 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR AluChem Inc. 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gary Thomas Farms 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri-State Turf of NC 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fords Produce Company Inc 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pender Nursery Inc. 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nucor Steel - Hertford County 487 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nucor Steel Hertford County 485 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hertford 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cofield Fdm/Gar/Fd De 39 FTE
NAT-TCR Alfa Laval Inc. Niagara (loc code: NBNY08) 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Division #11 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Illinois Office 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Lechler, Inc 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Harsco Butler 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sun Chemical Corp 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Milestone - CdA 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE CRI/ROS 40 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, 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.