Siding, plastics, manufacturing · North Carolina

Ply Gem Fence and Rail

Fair Bluff, NC · ~48 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ply Gem Fence and Rail runs at 135% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Siding, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Ply Gem Fence and Rail: 4.5 TCR = 135% of Siding, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ply Gem Fence and Rail safety composite

Ply Gem Fence and Rail scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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).

D

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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%).

Ply Gem Fence and Rail held a steady TCR band

Ply Gem Fence and Rail's TCR held near 0.1 from 2.7 in 2016 to 2.8 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.9 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.7 · 2017=6.9 · 2018=5.4 · 2019=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Fair Bluff, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 135% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #94/132
  • PHOTO Plastic Products Co.…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Plastic Products Co., Inc. - Lebanon (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ply Gem Fence and Rail in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ply Gem Fence and Rail averages 4.5 TCR (135% of the Siding, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ply Gem Fence and Rail TCR series: 2016=2.7 · 2017=6.9 · 2018=5.4 · 2019=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Ply Gem Fence and Rail falls in its industry

2,838 Siding, plastics, manufacturin establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #94 safest of 132 Siding, plastics, manufacturin employers in North Carolina.

Ply Gem Fence and Rail (48 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ply Gem Fence and Rail
Ply Gem Fence and Rail (48 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Ply Gem Fence and Rail has fewer employees than the Siding, plastics, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2019 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2018 5.4 5.4 4 0 0
2017 6.9 2.3 3 0 0
2016 2.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · NC · Fair Bluff

2,838 Siding, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 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 Plastic Products Co., Inc. - Lebanon 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Becklin Holdings dba ECS Composites 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oldcastle OPI - Madera - Enclosures 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mitchell Plastics Huntsville 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jones Family Farms 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bryan Wagoner Tree Farm LLC 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Statesville Breeder Operation 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Case Farms Morganton Hatchery 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pipeline Plastics, Fair Bluff 33 FTE
NAT-TCR 731 - Destin 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Cudahy Roofing 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR piggly wiggly 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Shorewood PN Clinic 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE House of Power Electric, LC 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Covanta Plymouth Renewable Energy, LLC 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lost Coast Brewery and Cafe 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hunter Pocono Peterbilt 48 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.