Fence posts, iron or steel, made in iron and steel mills · North Carolina

Nucor Steel Hertford County

Name: Nucor Steel Hertford County Workplace Safety Data
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Cofield, NC · ~485 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.5
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Nucor Steel Hertford County runs at 15% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Fence posts, iron or steel, made in iron and steel mills workplace, earning a grade A.

Nucor Steel Hertford County: 0.5 TCR = 15% of Fence posts, iron or steel, made in iron and steel mills BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nucor Steel Hertford County safety composite

Nucor Steel Hertford County scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% 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).

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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 0.2 from 0.6 in 2023 to 0.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 0.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=0.6 · 2024=0.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 15% of ind

DART 0.4 DART
RANK #2/8
PHOTO Nucor Steel Decatur,…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 5 inj
SIZE ~485 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nucor Steel Decatur, LLC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Nucor Steel Hertford County averages 0.5 TCR (15% of the Fence posts, iron or steel, made in iron and steel mills BLS benchmark).

Nucor Steel Hertford County TCR series: 2023=0.6 · 2024=0.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Nucor Steel Hertford County falls in its industry

416 Fence posts, iron or steel, ma establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 8 Fence posts, iron or steel, ma employers in North Carolina.

Nucor Steel Hertford County (485 employees, TCR 0.5) 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 Fence posts, iron or steel, made in iron 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
2024	0.4	0.4	2	0	0
2023	0.6	0.2	3	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · NC · Cofield

416 Fence posts, iron or steel, made in iron and steel mills 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Nucor Steel Decatur, LLC.	TRINITY, AL	0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Lone Star Tubular Operations	SOUTH LONE STAR, TX	0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	AM/NS Calvert	CALVERT, AL	0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	LOWELL MANUFACTURING COMPANY	PACIFIC, MO	0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	UCPS Transportation Department	MONROE	485 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Laurel Hill Distribution Center	LAUREL HILL	485 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Lakeside Environmental Consultants, LLC	WAKE FOREST	486 FTE
STATE-SIZE	USA Thomasville NC	THOMASVILLE	484 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Nucor Steel - Hertford County	Cofield	487 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Hertford	Cofield	40 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Harsco Hertford	Cofield	40 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Cofield Fdm/Gar/Fd De	Cofield	39 FTE
NAT-TCR	Nouryon Surface Chemistry LLC	Chattanooga, TN	0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Industrial Electric Co. of Detroit	Detroit, MI	0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Lincoln Winwater Works Co	Lincoln, NE	0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Pure Industries, Inc.	Lowell, MA	0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	ABF Freight 086	Conley, GA	485 FTE
NAT-SIZE	LeChase Construction Services, LLC	Rochester, NY	485 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Golden State Foods	City of Industry, CA	485 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Elmington Property Management	Nashville, TN	485 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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