Fabricated structural metal manufacturing · North Carolina

Machine & Welding of Danbury Walnut Cove

Walnut Cove, NC · ~20 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Machine & Welding of Danbury Walnut Cove runs at 46% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Fabricated structural metal manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Machine & Welding of Danbury Walnut Cove: 1.5 TCR = 46% of Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Machine & Welding of Danbury Walnut Cove safety composite

Machine & Welding of Danbury Walnut Cove scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% 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).

D

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

Machine & Welding of Danbury Walnut Cove: 0.0 → 6.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 6.0 TCR · DART/TCR 3.99× in 2022

Machine & Welding of Danbury Walnut Cove's TCR rose 6.0 from 0.0 in 2019 to 6.0 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 3.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 46% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #8/41
  • PHOTO Bedford
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bedford (0.0 TCR gap)

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Machine & Welding of Danbury Walnut Cove in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Machine & Welding of Danbury Walnut Cove averages 1.5 TCR (46% 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

Machine & Welding of Danbury Walnut Cove TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=6 · BLS 3.3

Where Machine & Welding of Danbury Walnut Cove falls in its industry

1,491 Fabricated structural metal ma establishments

Safer than 86% 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 #8 safest of 41 Fabricated structural metal ma employers in North Carolina.

Machine & Welding of Danbury Walnut Cove (20 employees, TCR 1.5) 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 Machine & Welding of Danbury Walnut Cove
Machine & Welding of Danbury Walnut Cove (20 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Machine & Welding of Danbury Walnut Cove has fewer 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
2022 6.0 6.0 1 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

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · NC · Walnut Cove

1,491 Fabricated structural metal manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 10 employers in Walnut Cove, 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 Bedford 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SteelFab, Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 104658 - Tijuana River Barrier 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Triad Steel Services, Inc. 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Steve Thomas Farms 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kent Smith Farms 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ron Richmond 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thomas Family Farms, Inc. 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkdale America LLC Plant 26 89 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stokes County - Fire/EMS 85 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plant 26 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR Walnut Ridge Assisted Living 79 FTE
NAT-TCR Ventura Foods Albert Lea 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hydranautics 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Steger Const Inc 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ginn Group LLC 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pediatric Health Choice-Alexandria 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE James Grezenski Forest Products Inc 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Safco Products - Virginia 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE United Brass Manufacturers - Forging Division 20 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.