Mining machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services · North Carolina

K&W Welding, LLC

Rockingham, NC · ~25 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

K&W Welding, LLC runs at 83% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Mining machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade C.

K&W Welding, LLC: 1.8 TCR = 83% of Mining machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services BLS 2.1 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

K&W Welding, LLC safety composite

K&W Welding, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% 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).

C

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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%).

K&W Welding, LLC held a steady TCR band

K&W Welding, LLC's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 12.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=12.9 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811310 · Rockingham, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 1.8 · 83% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #25/72
  • PHOTO Albany Branch
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Albany Branch (0.0 TCR gap)

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K&W Welding, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows K&W Welding, LLC averages 1.8 TCR (83% of the Mining machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services BLS benchmark).

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

K&W Welding, LLC TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=12.9 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.1

Where K&W Welding, LLC falls in its industry

2,560 Mining machinery and equipment establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 72 Mining machinery and equipment employers in North Carolina.

K&W Welding, LLC (25 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate K&W Welding, LLC
K&W Welding, LLC (25 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7

K&W Welding, LLC has fewer employees than the Mining machinery and equipment repair an median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 12.9 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 2.8 2.8 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

811310 · NC · Rockingham

2,560 Mining machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 44 employers in Rockingham, 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 Albany Branch 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rents - Transportation 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crown Lift Trucks Vandalia 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Louisville CGI 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fair View Nursery, Inc. 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE John William Carter III 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hill of Berry's 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Andrew Tyson Farms 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rockingham Plant 1,066 FTE
CITY-NEAR Richmond Memorial Hospital 466 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1010 335 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1010 328 FTE
NAT-TCR Minitube USA 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Eden Prairie MN 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Erwin Utilities Authority 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Clorox Cleaning & Household Mfg 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hi-Lubbock, Inc. 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE R S Industrial Assembly, Inc. 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Torre Construction Development, LLC 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southern Gardeners, Inc. 25 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.