Building materials supply dealers · North Carolina

New River Building Supply Banner Elk

Banner Elk, NC · ~20 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

New River Building Supply Banner Elk runs at 194% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Building materials supply dealers workplace, earning a grade D.

New River Building Supply Banner Elk: 6.6 TCR = 194% of Building materials supply dealers BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

New River Building Supply Banner Elk safety composite

New River Building Supply Banner Elk scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

−1.9

2019→2024

New River Building Supply Banner Elk injury rate improved

New River Building Supply Banner Elk's TCR fell 1.9 from 15.8 in 2019 to 13.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 15.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=15.8 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=5.1 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=13.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444190 · Banner Elk, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.6 · 194% of ind

  • DART 9.2 DART
  • RANK #39/53
  • PHOTO Galehouse Companies,…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Galehouse Companies, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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New River Building Supply Banner Elk in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows New River Building Supply Banner Elk averages 6.6 TCR (194% of the Building materials supply dealers BLS benchmark).

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

New River Building Supply Banner Elk TCR series: 2019=15.8 · 2020=0 · 2021=5.1 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=0 · 2024=13.8 · BLS 3.4

Where New River Building Supply Banner Elk falls in its industry

1,643 Building materials supply deal establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #39 safest of 53 Building materials supply deal employers in North Carolina.

New River Building Supply Banner Elk (20 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate New River Building Supply Banner Elk
New River Building Supply Banner Elk (20 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2

New River Building Supply Banner Elk has fewer employees than the Building materials supply dealers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 13.8 9.2 2 1 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 4.8 4.8 1 0 0
2021 5.1 5.1 0 1 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 15.8 5.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444190 · NC · Banner Elk

1,643 Building materials supply dealers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 12 employers in Banner Elk, 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 Galehouse Companies, Inc. 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4192-00051369-000506 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR TX180 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meek's Kansas 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Steve Thomas Farms 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kent Smith Farms 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ron Richmond 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thomas Family Farms, Inc. 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1834 LOWE S OF BANNER ELK NC 118 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2807-1834 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR Consolidated Resources 108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lowes Foods #158 95 FTE
NAT-TCR Norwalk Precast Molds, Inc. 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR United Towing & Transport Louisiana, Inc. 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR maple grove lodge 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR TXH029 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Westwoods Golf Course Administration 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE San Diego Electric Sign, Inc. 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE 177-Hampton Inn Anchorage 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gustafson Logging Co. 20 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, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.