Electric contracting · North Carolina

Salem Electric Company

Winston Salem, NC · ~237 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Salem Electric Company runs at 46% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Electric contracting workplace, earning a grade A.

Salem Electric Company: 1.3 TCR = 46% of Electric contracting BLS 2.8 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Salem Electric Company safety composite

Salem Electric Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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

−0.4

2016→2024

Salem Electric Company injury rate improved

Salem Electric Company's TCR fell 0.4 from 0.8 in 2016 to 0.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 2.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.8 · 2017=2.1 · 2018=2.4 · 2019=2.1 · 2020=0.9 · 2021=1.7 · 2022=1.2 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238210 · Winston Salem, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 46% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #34/108
  • PHOTO Ready Electric Compa…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~237 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ready Electric Company Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Salem Electric Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Salem Electric Company averages 1.3 TCR (46% of the Electric contracting BLS benchmark).

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

Salem Electric Company TCR series: 2016=0.8 · 2017=2.1 · 2018=2.4 · 2019=2.1 · 2020=0.9 · 2021=1.7 · 2022=1.2 · 2023=0 · 2024=0.4 · BLS 2.8

Where Salem Electric Company falls in its industry

4,550 Electric contracting establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #34 safest of 108 Electric contracting employers in North Carolina.

Salem Electric Company (237 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Salem Electric Company
Salem Electric Company (237 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Salem Electric Company has more employees than the Electric contracting median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2024 0.4 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 1.2 0.0 3 0 0
2021 1.7 0.4 4 0 0
2020 0.9 0.0 2 0 0
2019 2.1 0.3 6 0 0
2018 2.4 0.4 6 0 0
2017 2.1 0.9 5 0 0
2016 0.8 0.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238210 · NC · Winston Salem

4,550 Electric contracting employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 255 employers in Winston Salem, 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 Ready Electric Company Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Newkirk Electric 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Detroit 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Minneapolis 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Charlotte Office 237 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bowman Gray Technical Center 237 FTE
STATE-SIZE Commerical Screen Printing - Clothing 237 FTE
STATE-SIZE Reidsville Operations 237 FTE
CITY-NEAR WFBMC - Winston Campus 13,298 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wake Forest University Health Sciences 3,280 FTE
CITY-NEAR Inmar - 9040 Team Support Center 1,813 FTE
CITY-NEAR Inmar - Team Support Center 859 FTE
NAT-TCR Owens Corning 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Madix Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR MJM Masonry Inc 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 096/Pittsburgh 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE V.I. Water & Power Authority Richmond Plant 237 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vestil Manufacturing 237 FTE
NAT-SIZE MA Billerica Office 237 FTE
NAT-SIZE Select Specialty Hospital - Cleveland, LLC (d/b/a Select Specialty Hospital - Cleveland Fairhill) 237 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.