Plumbing contractors · North Carolina

McPherson Enterprizes Plumbing & Trenching Inc.

Elizabeth City, NC · ~27 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

McPherson Enterprizes Plumbing & Trenching Inc. runs at 161% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Plumbing contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

McPherson Enterprizes Plumbing & Trenching Inc.: 4.5 TCR = 161% of Plumbing contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

McPherson Enterprizes Plumbing & Trenching Inc. safety composite

McPherson Enterprizes Plumbing & Trenching Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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%).

TCR Δ

−8.5

2023→2024

McPherson Enterprizes Plumbing & Trenching Inc. injury rate improved

McPherson Enterprizes Plumbing & Trenching Inc.'s TCR fell 8.5 from 8.8 in 2023 to 0.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=8.8 · 2024=0.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Elizabeth City, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 161% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #146/212
  • PHOTO Palen Kimball, LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Palen Kimball, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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McPherson Enterprizes Plumbing & Trenching Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows McPherson Enterprizes Plumbing & Trenching Inc. averages 4.5 TCR (161% of the Plumbing contractors BLS benchmark).

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

McPherson Enterprizes Plumbing & Trenching Inc. TCR series: 2023=8.8 · 2024=0.3 · BLS 2.8

Where McPherson Enterprizes Plumbing & Trenching Inc. falls in its industry

5,793 Plumbing contractors establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #146 safest of 212 Plumbing contractors employers in North Carolina.

McPherson Enterprizes Plumbing & Trenching Inc. (27 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate McPherson Enterprizes Plumbing & Trenching Inc.
McPherson Enterprizes Plumbing & Trenching Inc. (27 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

McPherson Enterprizes Plumbing & Trenching Inc. has fewer employees than the Plumbing contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2024 0.3 0.3 2 0 0
2023 8.8 8.8 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · NC · Elizabeth City

5,793 Plumbing contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 57 employers in Elizabeth City, 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 Palen Kimball, LLC 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unique 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Haire Plumbing & Mechanical Co., Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crest Mechanical Services, Inc. 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bissette Farms, Inc 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hyde County Pullet Farm 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hyde County Pullet 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Price Logging Inc 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elizabeth City State University 734 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1527 402 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Elizabeth City 401 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1527 396 FTE
NAT-TCR Wrightstown 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 969 Ola49 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 1284 Hai7 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Harrison Healthcare Center 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kalamazoo Mechanical Inc 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE D28 Syracuse 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE D13 Des Moines 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Quartz & Stone Creations of NH LLC 27 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.