Engineering services · North Carolina

MSI Defense Solutions

Mooresville, NC · ~95 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

MSI Defense Solutions runs at 930% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Engineering services workplace, earning a grade F.

MSI Defense Solutions: 4.7 TCR = 930% of Engineering services BLS 0.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

MSI Defense Solutions safety composite

MSI Defense Solutions scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

−3.5

2018→2023

MSI Defense Solutions injury rate improved

MSI Defense Solutions's TCR fell 3.5 from 6.4 in 2018 to 2.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=6.4 · 2023=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541330 · Mooresville, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.7 · 930% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #10/11
  • PHOTO CTL
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~95 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CTL (0.0 TCR gap)

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MSI Defense Solutions in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows MSI Defense Solutions averages 4.7 TCR (930% of the Engineering services BLS benchmark).

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

MSI Defense Solutions TCR series: 2018=6.4 · 2023=2.9 · BLS 0.5

Where MSI Defense Solutions falls in its industry

690 Engineering services establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.9.

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 11 Engineering services employers in North Carolina.

MSI Defense Solutions (95 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 0.9 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate MSI Defense Solutions
MSI Defense Solutions (95 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 0.9

MSI Defense Solutions has fewer employees than the Engineering services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.9. 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
2023 2.9 2.9 3 0 0
2018 6.4 3.2 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541330 · NC · Mooresville

690 Engineering services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 161 employers in Mooresville, 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 CTL 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR D&K Engineering inc 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT TENET REHAB INSTITUTE MI EVS 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR HFE International 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Circle S Ranch NC 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Raleigh North Transmission and Distribution Operations Center 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE MB Haynes Corporation (Office) 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carolina Conduit Systems, Inc 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mooresville Graded School District 886 FTE
CITY-NEAR NGK Ceramics USA, Inc. 769 FTE
CITY-NEAR BestCo LLC 761 FTE
CITY-NEAR POWERHOME SOLAR 655 FTE
NAT-TCR Unit #1623 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Unibloc-Pump, LLC 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0333 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #1597 BUFFALO, NY 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Logan Health Shelby 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dept. of Transportation & Public Facilities (48) 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Google 8th Ave Cafe* 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nissin Precision NA Inc 95 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: 2023, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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