Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills · North Carolina

Insteel - Home Office

Mount Airy, NC · ~121 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Insteel - Home Office runs at 13% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills workplace, earning a grade A.

Insteel - Home Office: 0.4 TCR = 13% of Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Insteel - Home Office safety composite

Insteel - Home Office scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 99% 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 99% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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

Insteel - Home Office: 0.0 → 1.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 1.7 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2020

Insteel - Home Office's TCR rose 1.7 from 0.0 in 2017 to 1.7 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331222 · Mount Airy, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 13% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #1/9
  • PHOTO California Fine Wire…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~121 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: California Fine Wire Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Insteel - Home Office in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Insteel - Home Office averages 0.4 TCR (13% of the Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills BLS benchmark).

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

Insteel - Home Office TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=1.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Insteel - Home Office falls in its industry

163 Mesh, wire, made in wire drawi establishments

Safer than 99% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

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 Mesh, wire, made in wire drawi employers in North Carolina.

Insteel - Home Office (121 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Insteel - Home Office
Insteel - Home Office (121 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Insteel - Home Office has more employees than the Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2020 1.7 0.9 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331222 · NC · Mount Airy

163 Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 94 employers in Mount Airy, 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 California Fine Wire Company 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Night Hawk 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ardmore Bldg B 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ardmore Bldg C (Tech Center) 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Providence Construction 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE 5523_12243 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2120 W Arlington Blvd 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE SE&M Constructors 121 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pike Florida Statewide Operations 1,583 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pike North Carolina Statewide Operations 1,161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pike Georgia Statewide Operations 969 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pike Texas Statewide Operations 738 FTE
NAT-TCR Constellium 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Comm-Works LLC 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR APR/Dinan 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Caris Cotton Center 16 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Marian Home 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE MW home office 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Place at Pepper Hill 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE FBG Transport LLC 121 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.