Grills and grillwork, sheet metal, manufacturing · North Carolina

Metal Industries

Marion, NC · ~146 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Metal Industries runs at 43% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Grills and grillwork, sheet metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Metal Industries: 1.4 TCR = 43% of Grills and grillwork, sheet metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Metal Industries safety composite

Metal Industries scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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

Metal Industries: 0.0 → 2.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 2.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.5× in 2021

Metal Industries's TCR rose 2.8 from 0.0 in 2020 to 2.8 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332323 · Marion, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 43% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO EWSUT
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~146 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: EWSUT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Metal Industries in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Metal Industries averages 1.4 TCR (43% of the Grills and grillwork, sheet metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Metal Industries TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Metal Industries falls in its industry

309 Grills and grillwork, sheet me establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Grills and grillwork, sheet me employers in North Carolina.

Metal Industries (146 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Metal Industries
Metal Industries (146 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Metal Industries has more employees than the Grills and grillwork, sheet metal, manuf median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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 2.8 2.1 4 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332323 · NC · Marion

309 Grills and grillwork, sheet metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 49 employers in Marion, 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 EWSUT 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tri-Steel Fabricators, Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR O'ROURKE & SONS, INC. 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fabbrica LLC Office + Factory 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE IPS - Integrated Project Services, LLC - Carry 146 FTE
STATE-SIZE Abernethy Contracting 146 FTE
STATE-SIZE E. S. Wagner Company, LLC 146 FTE
STATE-SIZE ASPE-South LLC 146 FTE
CITY-NEAR North Cove, NC 2,895 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baxter, North Cove, NC, USA - MFG 2,475 FTE
CITY-NEAR MH Mission Hospital McDowell, LLLP 492 FTE
CITY-NEAR Coats North America - Sevier Plant 376 FTE
NAT-TCR Tri-M Group, LLC 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR TUSP 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Bennys Car Wash - Perkins 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Metro Contracting - Quince 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE USCS- Hazleton, PA 146 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dot's Goodyear 146 FTE
NAT-SIZE SMCTD-South Base Bus Transportation 146 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wolverine Building Group 146 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.