Barbed wire made from purchased wire · North Carolina

Merchants Metals Statesville

Name: Merchants Metals Statesville Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Statesville, NC · ~64 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.0
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Merchants Metals Statesville runs at 61% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Barbed wire made from purchased wire workplace, earning a grade B.

Merchants Metals Statesville: 2.0 TCR = 61% of Barbed wire made from purchased wire BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merchants Metals Statesville safety composite

Merchants Metals Statesville scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 50%), 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).

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 2 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers
DART rate: D 1.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.1

2020→2021

Merchants Metals Statesville injury rate improved

Merchants Metals Statesville's TCR fell 1.1 from 2.5 in 2020 to 1.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 2.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=2.5 · 2021=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332618 · Statesville, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 61% of ind

DART 1.5 DART
RANK #1/5
PHOTO Delta Rigging and To…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~64 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Delta Rigging and Tools, Inc - Hurst (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Merchants Metals Statesville averages 2.0 TCR (61% of the Barbed wire made from purchased wire BLS benchmark).

Merchants Metals Statesville TCR series: 2020=2.5 · 2021=1.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Merchants Metals Statesville falls in its industry

270 Barbed wire made from purchase establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 5 Barbed wire made from purchase employers in North Carolina.

Merchants Metals Statesville (64 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Merchants Metals Statesville has more employees than the Barbed wire made from purchased wire median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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	1.5	1.5	1	0	0
2020	2.5	1.3	2	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332618 · NC · Statesville

270 Barbed wire made from purchased wire 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Delta Rigging and Tools, Inc - Hurst	HURST, TX	2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	McEwen	MCEWEN, TN	2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	AMACS Process Tower Internals	HOUSTON, TX	2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Material Handling Division	NASHVILLE, TN	2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Agrarian Inc	STANTONSBURG	64 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Wilmington Eastern Region Office	WILMINGTON	64 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Randolph Electric Membership Corporation	ASHEBORO	64 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Apex Operations Center	APEX	64 FTE
CITY-NEAR	2807-0960	Statesville	974 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Doosan Bobcat	Statesville	857 FTE
CITY-NEAR	0960 LOWE S NORTH CAROLINA RDC	Statesville	836 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Cheney Brothers Inc. - Statesville	Statesville	830 FTE
NAT-TCR	Utilities Inc. of Louisiana - Covington	Mandeville, LA	2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Wateridge Regional Office	Los Angeles, CA	2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Teknon Government Services, LLC	Redmond, WA	2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	147 Chicago Gallery	Chicago, IL	2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Bloomington MN	Bloomington, MN	64 FTE
NAT-SIZE	566055-Mil-North Shore Br	Milwaukee, WI	64 FTE
NAT-SIZE	235076-Lanham-Seabrook Po	Lanham, MD	64 FTE
NAT-SIZE	051824-Rohnert Park Po	Cotati, CA	64 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.

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