Metal casting machinery and equipment manufacturing · North Carolina

J C Steele and Sons

Statesville, NC · ~120 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

J C Steele and Sons runs at 144% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Metal casting machinery and equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

J C Steele and Sons: 4.8 TCR = 144% of Metal casting machinery and equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

J C Steele and Sons safety composite

J C Steele and Sons scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

−2.4

2016→2024

J C Steele and Sons injury rate improved

J C Steele and Sons's TCR fell 2.4 from 8.0 in 2016 to 5.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 8.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.0 · 2017=4.8 · 2018=3.2 · 2019=7.0 · 2020=2.6 · 2021=1.6 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=6.5 · 2024=5.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333249 · Statesville, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 144% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #13/15
  • PHOTO 4Ram Polymers
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~120 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4Ram Polymers (0.0 TCR gap)

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J C Steele and Sons in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows J C Steele and Sons averages 4.8 TCR (144% of the Metal casting machinery and equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

J C Steele and Sons TCR series: 2016=8 · 2017=4.8 · 2018=3.2 · 2019=7 · 2020=2.6 · 2021=1.6 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=6.5 · 2024=5.6 · BLS 3.3

Where J C Steele and Sons falls in its industry

448 Metal casting machinery and eq establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 15 Metal casting machinery and eq employers in North Carolina.

J C Steele and Sons (120 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0200400600800 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate J C Steele and Sons
J C Steele and Sons (120 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 3.0

J C Steele and Sons has more employees than the Metal casting machinery and equipment ma median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 5.6 2.4 5 2 0
2023 6.5 0.8 3 5 0
2022 3.4 0.8 4 0 0
2021 1.6 0.0 2 0 0
2020 2.6 0.0 2 1 0
2019 7.0 1.6 7 2 0
2018 3.2 3.2 4 0 0
2017 4.8 0.8 5 1 0
2016 8.0 2.4 7 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333249 · NC · Statesville

448 Metal casting machinery and equipment manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 181 employers in Statesville, 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 4Ram Polymers 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Providien Injection Molding 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR SP Scientific - Stone Ridge, NY 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lumbee River EMC 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Carolina Department of Adult Correction Central Engineering 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sugarcreek Construction LLC 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glover Construction Co. 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2807-0960 974 FTE
CITY-NEAR Doosan Bobcat 857 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0960 LOWE S NORTH CAROLINA RDC 836 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cheney Brothers Inc. - Statesville 830 FTE
NAT-TCR Crown Lift Trucks Southern New England 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Crown Lift Trucks Detroit 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR LP Spring City, LLC 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Orange City Nursing and Rehab Center 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Central Office 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aurora Cooperative - Corporate Office 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jasper Seating Company Plant 1 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jasper Seating Company Plant 80 120 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.