Air receiver tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing · North Carolina

Morganton Pressure Vessels

Marion, NC · ~119 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Morganton Pressure Vessels runs at 231% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Air receiver tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Morganton Pressure Vessels: 7.6 TCR = 231% of Air receiver tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Morganton Pressure Vessels safety composite

Morganton Pressure Vessels scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

−2.3

2023→2024

Morganton Pressure Vessels injury rate improved

Morganton Pressure Vessels's TCR fell 2.3 from 8.8 in 2023 to 6.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=8.8 · 2024=6.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332420 · Marion, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.6 · 231% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #6/8
  • PHOTO Imperial Industries …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~119 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Imperial Industries Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Morganton Pressure Vessels in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Morganton Pressure Vessels averages 7.6 TCR (231% of the Air receiver tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Morganton Pressure Vessels TCR series: 2023=8.8 · 2024=6.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Morganton Pressure Vessels falls in its industry

355 Air receiver tanks, heavy gaug establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 8 Air receiver tanks, heavy gaug employers in North Carolina.

Morganton Pressure Vessels (119 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Morganton Pressure Vessels
Morganton Pressure Vessels (119 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Morganton Pressure Vessels has more employees than the Air receiver tanks, heavy gauge metal, m median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2024 6.5 2.8 7 0 0
2023 8.8 4.9 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332420 · NC · Marion

355 Air receiver tanks, heavy gauge 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 Imperial Industries Inc 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6367_14887 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bigbee Steel & Tank Company 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Henry Technologies 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Union Power Cooperative - Monroe 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mayodan 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Raleigh/Durham 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Weaver Cooke Construction 119 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 St Marys Box Company Inc 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR South Portland 10256 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Miles Kedex Company Inc 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Connecticut Foodshare - Wallingford 7.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mann Mechanical 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE El Capitan Hotel 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE River Birch LLC 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Charter Automotive 119 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.

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