Marine cargo handling services · North Carolina

Morehead City, NC - SEC

Morehead City, NC · ~24 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Morehead City, NC - SEC runs at 393% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Marine cargo handling services workplace, earning a grade F.

Morehead City, NC - SEC: 17.7 TCR = 393% of Marine cargo handling services BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Morehead City, NC - SEC safety composite

Morehead City, NC - SEC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 17.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Morehead City, NC - SEC: 9.3 → 34.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 34.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.96× in 2024

Morehead City, NC - SEC's TCR rose 24.8 from 9.3 in 2022 to 34.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488320 · Morehead City, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.7 · 393% of ind

  • DART 17.1 DART
  • RANK #10/10
  • PHOTO Ceres Brunswick
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ceres Brunswick (0.3 TCR gap)

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Morehead City, NC - SEC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Morehead City, NC - SEC averages 17.7 TCR (393% of the Marine cargo handling services BLS benchmark).

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

Morehead City, NC - SEC TCR series: 2022=9.3 · 2023=9.6 · 2024=34.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Morehead City, NC - SEC falls in its industry

391 Marine cargo handling services establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 10 Marine cargo handling services employers in North Carolina.

Morehead City, NC - SEC (24 employees, TCR 17.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Morehead City, NC - SEC
Morehead City, NC - SEC (24 employees, TCR 17.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Morehead City, NC - SEC has fewer employees than the Marine cargo handling services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 34.1 17.1 4 0 0
2023 9.6 3.2 2 1 0
2022 9.3 6.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488320 · NC · Morehead City

391 Marine cargo handling services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 36 employers in Morehead 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 Ceres Brunswick 18.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Union Pier Terminal 16.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR GTI 16.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Luis A. AyalaColon Sucrs., Inc. 16.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Open Grounds Farm, Inc. 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Super-Sod Charlotte 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holland Farms, Inc 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE CENTRAL LNM-EST 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carteret Health Care 1,189 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1355 355 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1355 328 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bally Refrigerated Boxes, Inc. 232 FTE
NAT-TCR The Bridge at Charleston 17.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Kre-Bsl Husky Avon Operation LLC 17.7 TCR
NAT-TCR EcoDry Restoration of Arizona 17.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0210 Irvine 17.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Minnesota Department of Health - Fergus Falls Office 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Minnesota Department of Health - St. Cloud Office 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Storm Lake Turkey FM 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Serenity Sleep Products 24 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, 2022. 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.