Sugar refining machinery manufacturing · North Carolina

Putsch & Company, Inc.

Fletcher, NC · ~36 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Putsch & Company, Inc. runs at 229% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sugar refining machinery manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Putsch & Company, Inc.: 7.6 TCR = 229% of Sugar refining machinery manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Putsch & Company, Inc. safety composite

Putsch & Company, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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).

F

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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%).

TCR Δ

−21.3

2018→2024

Putsch & Company, Inc. injury rate improved

Putsch & Company, Inc.'s TCR fell 21.3 from 24.1 in 2018 to 2.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 24.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=24.1 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=3.3 · 2024=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333241 · Fletcher, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.6 · 229% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #6/8
  • PHOTO LAWRENCE EQUIPMENT B…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LAWRENCE EQUIPMENT BANNING (0.1 TCR gap)

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Putsch & Company, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Putsch & Company, Inc. averages 7.6 TCR (229% of the Sugar refining machinery manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Putsch & Company, Inc. TCR series: 2018=24.1 · 2021=0 · 2022=3.3 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Putsch & Company, Inc. falls in its industry

215 Sugar refining machinery manuf establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 8 Sugar refining machinery manuf employers in North Carolina.

Putsch & Company, Inc. (36 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Putsch & Company, Inc.
Putsch & Company, Inc. (36 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Putsch & Company, Inc. has fewer employees than the Sugar refining machinery manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2022 3.3 3.3 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 24.1 19.3 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333241 · NC · Fletcher

215 Sugar refining machinery manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 52 employers in Fletcher, 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 LAWRENCE EQUIPMENT BANNING 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR ProForm Fabrication, LLC 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dixie Grinders, Inc 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR OLM Food Systems Milford IA - 4042 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Butterball Hatchery # 1 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Carolina Farms (CV) 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yadkin 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edgecombe Genco, LLC. 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Meritor Fletcher 622 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wilsonart LLC 613 FTE
CITY-NEAR Continental Automotive Systems 610 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wilsonart Fletcher NC 581 FTE
NAT-TCR Kelena Farms, Inc. 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Coreslab Structures (Atlanta), Inc. 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR TXH085 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Commerce 7.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE DLM Contracting Inc 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Milk Industry Management Co d.b.a Balford Farms 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE WW Contracting Corp. 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Standard Construction Company, Inc. 36 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, 2022, 2021, 2018. 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.