Boxes, waste, merchant wholesalers · North Carolina

L. Gordon Iron & Metal Company - Salisbury Road Facility

Statesville, NC · ~84 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

L. Gordon Iron & Metal Company - Salisbury Road Facility runs at 255% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Boxes, waste, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

L. Gordon Iron & Metal Company - Salisbury Road Facility: 5.6 TCR = 255% of Boxes, waste, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

L. Gordon Iron & Metal Company - Salisbury Road Facility safety composite

L. Gordon Iron & Metal Company - Salisbury Road Facility scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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).

D

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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%).

L. Gordon Iron & Metal Company - Salisbury Road Facility held a steady TCR band

L. Gordon Iron & Metal Company - Salisbury Road Facility's TCR held near 0.3 from 5.3 in 2017 to 5.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.3 · 2018=7.0 · 2022=3.0 · 2023=7.1 · 2024=5.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Statesville, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.6 · 255% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #27/37
  • PHOTO Keystone Iron and Me…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Keystone Iron and Metal Co., Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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L. Gordon Iron & Metal Company - Salisbury Road Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows L. Gordon Iron & Metal Company - Salisbury Road Facility averages 5.6 TCR (255% of the Boxes, waste, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

L. Gordon Iron & Metal Company - Salisbury Road Facility TCR series: 2017=5.3 · 2018=7 · 2022=3 · 2023=7.1 · 2024=5.6 · BLS 2.2

Where L. Gordon Iron & Metal Company - Salisbury Road Facility falls in its industry

1,126 Boxes, waste, merchant wholesa establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 37 Boxes, waste, merchant wholesa employers in North Carolina.

L. Gordon Iron & Metal Company - Salisbury Road Facility (84 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 020406080100 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate L. Gordon Iron & Metal Company - Salisbury Road Facility
L. Gordon Iron & Metal Company - Salisbury Road Facility (84 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

L. Gordon Iron & Metal Company - Salisbury Road Facility has more employees than the Boxes, waste, merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 3.4 3 2 0
2023 7.1 5.1 7 0 0
2022 3.0 0.0 3 0 0
2018 7.0 3.0 5 2 0
2017 5.3 3.2 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · NC · Statesville

1,126 Boxes, waste, merchant wholesalers 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 Keystone Iron and Metal Co., Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schupan Recycling Wixom 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR PnP Merced 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR McCoy Iron & Metal, Inc. 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lark Maintenance Facility 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corp. Corporate Office 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Weaver Cooke Construction, LLC 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lendlease Charlotte 84 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 Belleview Price Cutter 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Big W Ranch Inc 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 313NCN 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Alta Irrigation District 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Chemcut 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kruse & Son, Inc 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vocational Services, Inc. Shop #2 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Toshiba Business Solutions - Rochester 180 84 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, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.