Boat sections, prefabricated metal, manufacturing · North Carolina

HC Composites LLC

Tarboro, NC · ~291 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HC Composites LLC runs at 182% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Boat sections, prefabricated metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

HC Composites LLC: 6.0 TCR = 182% of Boat sections, prefabricated metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HC Composites LLC safety composite

HC Composites LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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

−1.4

2022→2024

HC Composites LLC injury rate improved

HC Composites LLC's TCR fell 1.4 from 6.7 in 2022 to 5.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=6.7 · 2024=5.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Tarboro, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 182% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #33/41
  • PHOTO Abilene Towers & Hev…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~291 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Abilene Towers & Hevy Industries (0.0 TCR gap)

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HC Composites LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HC Composites LLC averages 6.0 TCR (182% of the Boat sections, prefabricated metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

HC Composites LLC TCR series: 2022=6.7 · 2024=5.3 · BLS 3.3

Where HC Composites LLC falls in its industry

1,491 Boat sections, prefabricated m establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #33 safest of 41 Boat sections, prefabricated m employers in North Carolina.

HC Composites LLC (291 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate HC Composites LLC
HC Composites LLC (291 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

HC Composites LLC has more employees than the Boat sections, prefabricated metal, manu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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 5.3 0.8 13 0 0
2022 6.7 1.2 15 8 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · NC · Tarboro

1,491 Boat sections, prefabricated metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 46 employers in Tarboro, 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 Abilene Towers & Hevy Industries 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Universal Steel of NC LLC 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SL Chasse Steel 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pro Fab Custom Fabrication and Welding Inc. 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE PCB Piezotronics / PCB Piezotronics of 291 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1502 291 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cannon School 291 FTE
STATE-SIZE Topgolf Charlotte University 291 FTE
CITY-NEAR ECU Health Edgecombe Hospital 615 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vidant Edgecombe Hospital 549 FTE
CITY-NEAR Keihin Carolina System Technology 464 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hitachi Astemo Greenfield LLC 348 FTE
NAT-TCR Cambridge-Lee Industries LLC Reading Facility 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Stanley Machining & Tool Corp. 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Area Heating & Cooling, Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Planes Moving & Storage of Dayton, LLC 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Learjet Inc. 291 FTE
NAT-SIZE Frasier 291 FTE
NAT-SIZE ABB Installation Products 291 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rhea Medical Center 291 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, 2022. 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.