Air brake systems and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · North Carolina

MGM Brakes - Murphy

Murphy, NC · ~75 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
10.4
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

MGM Brakes - Murphy runs at 193% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Air brake systems and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

MGM Brakes - Murphy: 10.4 TCR = 193% of Air brake systems and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

MGM Brakes - Murphy safety composite

MGM Brakes - Murphy scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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).

F

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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

−4.6

2016→2021

MGM Brakes - Murphy injury rate improved

MGM Brakes - Murphy's TCR fell 4.6 from 11.0 in 2016 to 6.4 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 15.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=11.0 · 2017=14.3 · 2018=5.4 · 2020=15.0 · 2021=6.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336340 · Murphy, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 10.4 · 193% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #8/8
  • PHOTO Indian Head Industri…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~75 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Indian Head Industries / MGM Brakes (0.3 TCR gap)

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MGM Brakes - Murphy in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows MGM Brakes - Murphy averages 10.4 TCR (193% of the Air brake systems and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

MGM Brakes - Murphy TCR series: 2016=11 · 2017=14.3 · 2018=5.4 · 2020=15 · 2021=6.4 · BLS 5.4

Where MGM Brakes - Murphy falls in its industry

133 Air brake systems and parts, a establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

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 8 Air brake systems and parts, a employers in North Carolina.

MGM Brakes - Murphy (75 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 150 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate MGM Brakes - Murphy
MGM Brakes - Murphy (75 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 150 employees and a TCR of 2.6

MGM Brakes - Murphy has fewer employees than the Air brake systems and parts, automotive, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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
2021 6.4 1.6 3 1 0
2020 15.0 11.7 7 2 0
2018 5.4 4.1 3 1 0
2017 14.3 2.6 7 4 0
2016 11.0 3.7 6 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336340 · NC · Murphy

133 Air brake systems and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 24 employers in Murphy, 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 Indian Head Industries / MGM Brakes 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Haldex Brake Products 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR MAT CV Braking Components, LLC - Dallas 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plants 11 & 12 11.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE FARM 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE AGRICULTURAL-FARMING 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electric Systems 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.R. Horton, Inc. - Raleigh South 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harrah's Cherokee Valley River Casino and Hotel 914 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cherokee County Schools 474 FTE
CITY-NEAR Erlanger Western Carolina Hospital 434 FTE
CITY-NEAR Moog Inc. 393 FTE
NAT-TCR The Groves of Tustin 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Stericycle - Oneonta,NY 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR ZFS Creston, LLC 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR All American Nursing Home 10.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE FMS Construction Company 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sedano's Supermarket #29 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mountain Hardware and Sports 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Region 3- White City 75 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.