Stevedoring services · North Carolina

SSA Cooper Wilmington

Wilmington, NC · ~110 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SSA Cooper Wilmington runs at 357% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Stevedoring services workplace, earning a grade F.

SSA Cooper Wilmington: 16.1 TCR = 357% of Stevedoring services BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SSA Cooper Wilmington safety composite

SSA Cooper Wilmington scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.8

2016→2018

SSA Cooper Wilmington injury rate improved

SSA Cooper Wilmington's TCR fell 3.8 from 15.2 in 2016 to 11.5 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 21.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=15.2 · 2017=21.6 · 2018=11.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488320 · Wilmington, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 16.1 · 357% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #9/10
  • PHOTO Luis A. AyalaColon S…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~110 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Luis A. AyalaColon Sucrs., Inc. (0.4 TCR gap)

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SSA Cooper Wilmington in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SSA Cooper Wilmington averages 16.1 TCR (357% of the Stevedoring services BLS benchmark).

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

SSA Cooper Wilmington TCR series: 2016=15.2 · 2017=21.6 · 2018=11.5 · BLS 4.5

Where SSA Cooper Wilmington falls in its industry

391 Stevedoring services establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 10 Stevedoring services employers in North Carolina.

SSA Cooper Wilmington (110 employees, TCR 16.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate SSA Cooper Wilmington
SSA Cooper Wilmington (110 employees, TCR 16.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 4.8

SSA Cooper Wilmington has more employees than the Stevedoring services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2018 11.5 4.6 5 0 0
2017 21.6 13.5 8 0 0
2016 15.2 10.2 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488320 · NC · Wilmington

391 Stevedoring services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 360 employers in Wilmington, 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 Luis A. AyalaColon Sucrs., Inc. 16.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Los Angeles - MCS 15.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR GTI 16.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Union Pier Terminal 16.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE MSF Electric, Inc. North Carolina 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-Charlotte 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE 698 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE B-Organized Insulation & Specialty Products #764 110 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medical Center 6,890 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Hanover Regional Medical Center 4,768 FTE
CITY-NEAR GE Hitachi Nuclear Americas 1,975 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Hanover County Government 1,974 FTE
NAT-TCR 2077-Us Dd Nw Modesto Branch 16.1 TCR
NAT-TCR California 16.1 TCR
NAT-TCR RSW - Ground Ops 16.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Rockford School District 16.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE QSI Vienna 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elmsford Elite Laundry, LLC 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE B-X Avon LLC 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lexington Healthcare of La Grange 110 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.