Erecting structural steel · North Carolina

Mabe Steel Inc.

Kernersville, NC · ~78 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mabe Steel Inc. runs at 68% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Erecting structural steel workplace, earning a grade B.

Mabe Steel Inc.: 1.9 TCR = 68% of Erecting structural steel BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mabe Steel Inc. safety composite

Mabe Steel Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Mabe Steel Inc.: 0.0 → 4.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.62× in 2024

Mabe Steel Inc.'s TCR rose 4.6 from 0.0 in 2022 to 4.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238120 · Kernersville, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 68% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #8/21
  • PHOTO Deem Structural Serv…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~78 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Deem Structural Services (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mabe Steel Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mabe Steel Inc. averages 1.9 TCR (68% of the Erecting structural steel BLS benchmark).

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

Mabe Steel Inc. TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=4.6 · BLS 2.8

Where Mabe Steel Inc. falls in its industry

705 Erecting structural steel establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 21 Erecting structural steel employers in North Carolina.

Mabe Steel Inc. (78 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 050100150200250 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Mabe Steel Inc.
Mabe Steel Inc. (78 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Mabe Steel Inc. has more employees than the Erecting structural steel median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 4.6 3.1 3 0 0
2023 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238120 · NC · Kernersville

705 Erecting structural steel employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 93 employers in Kernersville, 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 Deem Structural Services 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR CMC Placing San Diego 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Western Division 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Structural Steel Inc. 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kings Mountain Generation Support Facility 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blue Ridge Electric Corporate Office 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forest City location 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ground Thunder Construction 78 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6458-GRNB 1,399 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - GSO1 968 FTE
CITY-NEAR 274 797 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Kernersville 782 FTE
NAT-TCR Branch 4334 - Santa Ana 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Keokuk Municipal Waterworks 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Springhill Suites 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Koch Foods Attalla Feed Mill 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Farm and Fleet of Dubuque 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hood Construction Company, Inc. 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Accu-Tube - Denver 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gold Bond Building Products, LLC 78 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.