Steel manufacturing · North Carolina

Nucor Steel - Hertford County

Cofield, NC · ~487 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nucor Steel - Hertford County runs at 44% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Steel manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Nucor Steel - Hertford County: 1.4 TCR = 44% of Steel manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nucor Steel - Hertford County safety composite

Nucor Steel - Hertford County scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).

C

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% 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%).

Nucor Steel - Hertford County held a steady TCR band

Nucor Steel - Hertford County's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.8 in 2016 to 0.8 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 1.9 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.8 · 2017=1.6 · 2018=1.9 · 2019=1.7 · 2020=1.9 · 2021=1.5 · 2022=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Cofield, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 44% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #3/8
  • PHOTO Steel Dynamics Flat …
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 53 inj
  • SIZE ~487 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Steel Dynamics Flat Roll Group - Heartland (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nucor Steel - Hertford County in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nucor Steel - Hertford County averages 1.4 TCR (44% of the Steel manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Nucor Steel - Hertford County TCR series: 2016=0.8 · 2017=1.6 · 2018=1.9 · 2019=1.7 · 2020=1.9 · 2021=1.5 · 2022=0.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Nucor Steel - Hertford County falls in its industry

416 Steel manufacturing establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 8 Steel manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

Nucor Steel - Hertford County (487 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Nucor Steel - Hertford County
Nucor Steel - Hertford County (487 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Nucor Steel - Hertford County has more employees than the Steel manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2022 0.8 0.4 4 0 0
2021 1.5 1.1 8 0 0
2020 1.9 1.1 10 0 0
2019 1.7 1.1 9 0 0
2018 1.9 1.1 10 0 0
2017 1.6 0.8 8 0 0
2016 0.8 0.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · NC · Cofield

416 Steel manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 13 employers in Cofield, 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 Steel Dynamics Flat Roll Group - Heartland 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cleveland Works 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fairfield Tubular Steel Operations 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Steel Dynamics, Inc. - FR Columbus 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE RPG, Co. LLC 487 FTE
STATE-SIZE Syngenta RTP 487 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carolina Meadows 487 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lakeside Environmental Consultants, LLC 486 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nucor Steel Hertford County 485 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hertford 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harsco Hertford 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cofield Fdm/Gar/Fd De 39 FTE
NAT-TCR Albuquerque Branch 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Seaboard Energy, LLC 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Alleghany Investments LLC 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ready Pac Foods 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Independent Home Care, Inc. 487 FTE
NAT-SIZE NJ_Cranbury_18 487 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4186-DC5 487 FTE
NAT-SIZE SKF Aeroengine North America 487 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.