Lighting maintenance services (e.g., bulb and fuse replacement and cleaning) · North Carolina

The Budd Group Maintenance

Winston-Salem, NC · ~34 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Budd Group Maintenance runs at 160% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Lighting maintenance services (e.g., bulb and fuse replacement and cleaning) workplace, earning a grade D.

The Budd Group Maintenance: 7.2 TCR = 160% of Lighting maintenance services (e.g., bulb and fuse replacement and cleaning) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Budd Group Maintenance safety composite

The Budd Group Maintenance scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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%).

Rising injury rate

The Budd Group Maintenance: 6.3 → 8.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 8.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.12× in 2018

The Budd Group Maintenance's TCR rose 1.8 from 6.3 in 2016 to 8.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561790 · Winston-Salem, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.2 · 160% of ind

  • DART 8.1 DART
  • RANK #5/8
  • PHOTO SOR - North Raleigh
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SOR - North Raleigh (0.1 TCR gap)

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The Budd Group Maintenance in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Budd Group Maintenance averages 7.2 TCR (160% of the Lighting maintenance services (e.g., bulb and fuse replacement and cleaning) BLS benchmark).

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

The Budd Group Maintenance TCR series: 2016=6.3 · 2018=8.1 · BLS 4.5

Where The Budd Group Maintenance falls in its industry

171 Lighting maintenance services establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 8 Lighting maintenance services employers in North Carolina.

The Budd Group Maintenance (34 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate The Budd Group Maintenance
The Budd Group Maintenance (34 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 5.1

The Budd Group Maintenance has fewer employees than the Lighting maintenance services (e.g., bul median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 8.1 8.1 3 0 0
2016 6.3 3.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561790 · NC · Winston-Salem

171 Lighting maintenance services (e.g., bulb and fuse replacement and cleaning) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 234 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 SOR - North Raleigh 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maryland 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Top Gun 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR National Restaurants Management Inc 7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jerry G. Williams & Sons, Inc. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2778 NC 50 South, Benson, NC 27504 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Frontier Natural Gas 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iredell Operations Center 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center 4,906 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Budd Group Janitorial 4,414 FTE
CITY-NEAR Reynolds American Inc. Trade Marketing Services 2,061 FTE
CITY-NEAR Reynolds Marketing Services Company 1,600 FTE
NAT-TCR Gallipolis OH Depot 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Superior Production LLC - Marion Road Plant 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Main - Hwy 90 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Edison Block 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE W.C. Transport 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Friedges Drywall, Inc. 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atlanta CPC 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE NatureScapes 34 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, 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.