Bars, concrete reinforcing (rebar) made in steel mills · North Carolina

Nucor Steel Lexington

Lexington, NC · ~124 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nucor Steel Lexington runs at 10% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Bars, concrete reinforcing (rebar) made in steel mills workplace, earning a grade A.

Nucor Steel Lexington: 0.3 TCR = 10% of Bars, concrete reinforcing (rebar) made in steel mills BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nucor Steel Lexington safety composite

Nucor Steel Lexington scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% 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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Nucor Steel Lexington: 0.0 → 0.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 0.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.97× in 2024

Nucor Steel Lexington's TCR rose 0.7 from 0.0 in 2023 to 0.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 0.3 · 10% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #1/8
  • PHOTO AMG Vanadium - Cambr…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~124 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AMG Vanadium - Cambridge (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nucor Steel Lexington in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nucor Steel Lexington averages 0.3 TCR (10% of the Bars, concrete reinforcing (rebar) made in steel mills BLS benchmark).

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

Nucor Steel Lexington TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=0.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Nucor Steel Lexington falls in its industry

416 Bars, concrete reinforcing (re establishments

Safer than 96% 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 #1 safest of 8 Bars, concrete reinforcing (re employers in North Carolina.

Nucor Steel Lexington (124 employees, TCR 0.3) 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 Lexington
Nucor Steel Lexington (124 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Nucor Steel Lexington has fewer employees than the Bars, concrete reinforcing (rebar) made 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 0.7 0.7 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · NC · Lexington

416 Bars, concrete reinforcing (rebar) made in steel mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 120 employers in Lexington, 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 AMG Vanadium - Cambridge 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR DanMar Installations, Inc 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SSAB Enterprises Inc. 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR ArcelorMittal Corporate - Research & Development 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Western Region Operations Complex (Asheville) 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE Commercial Grade 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE Benitez Electric INC 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE International Paper 124 FTE
CITY-NEAR Davidson County Schools 3,351 FTE
CITY-NEAR Davidson County Government 1,237 FTE
CITY-NEAR Atrium Windows & Door 910 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASCO Power Technologies 639 FTE
NAT-TCR Grady Management Inc 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mason Road Sheet Metal Inc 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Superior Petroleum Services 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Bath Co Pw St 0.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Zeigler Downers Grove 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE BWAY Mansfield 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ctnia - Niantic 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ny700 - Palisades 124 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.