Fabricated structural metal manufacturing · North Carolina

Kinston Steel, LLC

Kinston, NC · ~94 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kinston Steel, LLC runs at 22% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Fabricated structural metal manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Kinston Steel, LLC: 0.7 TCR = 22% of Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kinston Steel, LLC safety composite

Kinston Steel, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Kinston Steel, LLC: 0.0 → 1.2 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 2.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Kinston Steel, LLC's TCR rose 1.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 1.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 2.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Kinston, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 22% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/41
  • PHOTO Ambassador Steel-Moo…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~94 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ambassador Steel-Mooresville Indiana (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kinston Steel, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kinston Steel, LLC averages 0.7 TCR (22% of the Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kinston Steel, LLC TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=1.4 · 2019=2.1 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=2 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Kinston Steel, LLC falls in its industry

1,491 Fabricated structural metal ma establishments

Safer than 95% 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 #3 safest of 41 Fabricated structural metal ma employers in North Carolina.

Kinston Steel, LLC (94 employees, TCR 0.7) 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 Kinston Steel, LLC
Kinston Steel, LLC (94 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Kinston Steel, LLC has more employees than the Fabricated structural metal manufacturin median and a lower 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 1.2 0.0 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 2.0 0.7 3 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.1 0.0 2 0 0
2018 1.4 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · NC · Kinston

1,491 Fabricated structural metal manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 86 employers in Kinston, 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 Ambassador Steel-Mooresville Indiana 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR C&B Fabrication LLC 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sturdi Iron 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vigor Industrial Services 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pike Gas Services, LLC Florida Statewide Operations 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sharpe Brothers 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mechworks - Corporate 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE TK Elevator Raleigh 94 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sanderson Farms Kinston Processing 1,564 FTE
CITY-NEAR Caswell Developmental Center 1,256 FTE
CITY-NEAR UNC Lenoir Health Care 843 FTE
CITY-NEAR UNC Health Lenoir 744 FTE
NAT-TCR Graycor Industrial Constructors Inc. 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Miller Insulation Williston Branch 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR IL157 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Courtyard Buffalo 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kuhns Markets Mcknight 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Garden Villas South 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pyrotek Aurora 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE LP Calvert City, LLC--Oakview 94 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.