Employer · North Carolina

Underwood & Weld Company Inc

Spruce Pine, NC · ~52 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Underwood & Weld Company Inc runs at 33% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade A.

Underwood & Weld Company Inc: 1.5 TCR = 33% of industry BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Underwood & Weld Company Inc safety composite

Underwood & Weld Company Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

−4.5

2017→2022

Underwood & Weld Company Inc injury rate improved

Underwood & Weld Company Inc's TCR fell 4.5 from 4.5 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.5 · 2019=0.0 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Spruce Pine, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 33% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #23/125
  • PHOTO TTI- San Antonio, TX
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~52 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TTI- San Antonio, TX (0.0 TCR gap)

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Underwood & Weld Company Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Underwood & Weld Company Inc averages 1.5 TCR (33% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Underwood & Weld Company Inc TCR series: 2017=4.5 · 2019=0 · 2022=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Underwood & Weld Company Inc falls in its industry

3,252 industry establishments

Safer than 79% 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 #23 safest of 125 industry employers in North Carolina.

Underwood & Weld Company Inc (52 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Underwood & Weld Company Inc
Underwood & Weld Company Inc (52 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Underwood & Weld Company Inc has fewer employees than the industry median and a lower 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
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 4.5 3.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · NC · Spruce Pine

3,252 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 9 employers in Spruce Pine, 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 TTI- San Antonio, TX 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hegins, PA - 79 Park Lane 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carter Express - Laredo, TX 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR HENIFF TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS - CHARLOTTE, NC (OLD STATESVILLE ROAD) 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sutton Energy Complex CC/CT 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Windsor Investments LLC d/b/a Windsor Homes 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wilson Covington Construction Company 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Office 52 FTE
CITY-NEAR MH Blue Ridge Medical Center, LLLP 354 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2749 253 FTE
CITY-NEAR BRP US Inc. Spruce Pine 233 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2749 212 FTE
NAT-TCR Eastern Shore 48370 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR CH Ellis 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR PCI Atlanta Scaffold 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Manheim Mississippi 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Woodinville 47420 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE A&I Express Inc 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1017 - TXDOT IH45 Walker County 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Glen Cove 52 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: 2022, 2019, 2017. 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.