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

Insteel Wire Products NCW

Mount Airy, NC · ~111 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Insteel Wire Products NCW runs at 75% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills workplace, earning a grade B.

Insteel Wire Products NCW: 2.5 TCR = 75% of Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Insteel Wire Products NCW safety composite

Insteel Wire Products NCW scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 88% 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).

C

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.3

2016→2024

Insteel Wire Products NCW injury rate improved

Insteel Wire Products NCW's TCR fell 4.3 from 4.3 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.3 · 2021=4.0 · 2022=1.5 · 2023=2.7 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 75% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/9
  • PHOTO Nelson Wire & Steel
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~111 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nelson Wire & Steel (0.0 TCR gap)

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Insteel Wire Products NCW in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Insteel Wire Products NCW averages 2.5 TCR (75% 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 Wire Products NCW TCR series: 2016=4.3 · 2021=4 · 2022=1.5 · 2023=2.7 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Insteel Wire Products NCW falls in its industry

163 Mesh, wire, made in wire drawi establishments

Safer than 72% 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 #4 safest of 9 Mesh, wire, made in wire drawi employers in North Carolina.

Insteel Wire Products NCW (111 employees, TCR 2.5) 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Insteel Wire Products NCW
Insteel Wire Products NCW (111 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Insteel Wire Products NCW 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 2.7 1.8 3 0 0
2022 1.5 1.5 2 0 0
2021 4.0 2.4 5 0 0
2016 4.3 0.0 6 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 Nelson Wire & Steel 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Insteel Wire PAW 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Insteel Wire Products - Jacksonville, FL 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bekaert Van Buren (BKVB) 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Smith Farms 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Energy Management 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pike Tennessee Statewide Operations 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4300 111 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 Frank J Ryan & Sons Inc 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 173 Twin Oaks 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ebensburg Power Company 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ohmah - Mahoning Valley 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Casa De Manana 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE MRB Contractors, LLC 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sheraton Flowood Hotel and Conference Center 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE 719 Washington 111 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, 2021, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.