Cable, nonferrous, insulated, or armored, made from purchased nonferrous wire · North Carolina

LS Cable & System USA -Tarboro Plant

Tarboro, NC · ~159 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

LS Cable & System USA -Tarboro Plant runs at 142% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cable, nonferrous, insulated, or armored, made from purchased nonferrous wire workplace, earning a grade D.

LS Cable & System USA -Tarboro Plant: 4.7 TCR = 142% of Cable, nonferrous, insulated, or armored, made from purchased nonferrous wire BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

LS Cable & System USA -Tarboro Plant safety composite

LS Cable & System USA -Tarboro Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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%).

Rising injury rate

LS Cable & System USA -Tarboro Plant: 4.0 → 5.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 5.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.91× in 2021

LS Cable & System USA -Tarboro Plant's TCR rose 1.3 from 4.0 in 2020 to 5.3 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 335929 · Tarboro, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 142% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #17/18
  • PHOTO Draka Cableteq USA
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~159 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Draka Cableteq USA (0.0 TCR gap)

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LS Cable & System USA -Tarboro Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows LS Cable & System USA -Tarboro Plant averages 4.7 TCR (142% of the Cable, nonferrous, insulated, or armored, made from purchased nonferrous wire BLS benchmark).

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

LS Cable & System USA -Tarboro Plant TCR series: 2020=4 · 2021=5.3 · BLS 3.3

Where LS Cable & System USA -Tarboro Plant falls in its industry

144 Cable, nonferrous, insulated, establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 18 Cable, nonferrous, insulated, employers in North Carolina.

LS Cable & System USA -Tarboro Plant (159 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 0100200300 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate LS Cable & System USA -Tarboro Plant
LS Cable & System USA -Tarboro Plant (159 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 2.3

LS Cable & System USA -Tarboro Plant has more employees than the Cable, nonferrous, insulated, or armored median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2021 5.3 4.3 10 0 0
2020 4.0 3.5 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

335929 · NC · Tarboro

144 Cable, nonferrous, insulated, or armored, made from purchased nonferrous wire employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 46 employers in Tarboro, 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 Draka Cableteq USA 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Data Guide Cable Corp 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marmon Utility LLC Seymour 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR TF CABLE AMERICAS 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE NHM Constructors, Inc. 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pitt Electric ORI, LLC 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lovelady Plant 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE IPEX USA LLC 159 FTE
CITY-NEAR ECU Health Edgecombe Hospital 615 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vidant Edgecombe Hospital 549 FTE
CITY-NEAR Keihin Carolina System Technology 464 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hitachi Astemo Greenfield LLC 348 FTE
NAT-TCR 43311a - Fenton 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Georgetown-Corp 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Administration 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Pacific Bath Company - Seattle 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE STA-Eagle Mountain (TEX-745) 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meritec 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kid Start 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE JFShea Construction-Walnut 159 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: 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.