Blade sharpening, commercial and industrial machinery and equipment · North Carolina

Precision Saw Works, Inc.

Polkton, NC · ~47 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Precision Saw Works, Inc. runs at 171% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Blade sharpening, commercial and industrial machinery and equipment workplace, earning a grade D.

Precision Saw Works, Inc.: 3.6 TCR = 171% of Blade sharpening, commercial and industrial machinery and equipment BLS 2.1 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Precision Saw Works, Inc. safety composite

Precision Saw Works, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−9.1

2016→2020

Precision Saw Works, Inc. injury rate improved

Precision Saw Works, Inc.'s TCR fell 9.1 from 9.1 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 9.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.1 · 2017=8.8 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811310 · Polkton, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.6 · 171% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #47/72
  • PHOTO Crown Lift Trucks St…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Crown Lift Trucks St. Paul (0.0 TCR gap)

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Precision Saw Works, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Precision Saw Works, Inc. averages 3.6 TCR (171% of the Blade sharpening, commercial and industrial machinery and equipment BLS benchmark).

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

Precision Saw Works, Inc. TCR series: 2016=9.1 · 2017=8.8 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · BLS 2.1

Where Precision Saw Works, Inc. falls in its industry

2,560 Blade sharpening, commercial a establishments

Safer than 36% 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 #47 safest of 72 Blade sharpening, commercial a employers in North Carolina.

Precision Saw Works, Inc. (47 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Precision Saw Works, Inc.
Precision Saw Works, Inc. (47 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Precision Saw Works, Inc. has more employees than the Blade sharpening, commercial and industr median and a higher 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 8.8 4.4 4 0 0
2016 9.1 2.3 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811310 · NC · Polkton

2,560 Blade sharpening, commercial and industrial machinery and equipment employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 5 employers in Polkton, 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 Crown Lift Trucks St. Paul 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prime Power Services Inc HQ 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 469 Borg Warner - Frankfort 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 12 Kansas City, MO 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Monroe NC Operations 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dan River Steam Station 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hickory Resource Center PNG 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smith Douglas Charlotte 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR Anson Mechanical Piping Inc 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Polkton 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Anson Children's Center 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR ANSON CHILDRENS CENTER 21 FTE
NAT-TCR Martins Ferry TENORM Processing Facility 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR TX200 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Donnelly Custom Mfg 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Omni Chicago 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Devon Electric, Inc. 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Prescott 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Digitech 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lumina Shared Services 47 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: 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.