Marine cargo handling services · North Carolina

Wilmington, NC - SEC

Wilmington, NC · ~63 workers · 3 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

Wilmington, NC - SEC runs at 160% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Marine cargo handling services workplace, earning a grade D.

Wilmington, NC - SEC: 7.2 TCR = 160% of Marine cargo handling services BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wilmington, NC - SEC safety composite

Wilmington, NC - SEC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Wilmington, NC - SEC: 7.3 → 8.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.46× in 2024

Wilmington, NC - SEC's TCR rose 1.0 from 7.3 in 2022 to 8.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 7.2 · 160% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #3/10
  • PHOTO SSA Pacific - Longview
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SSA Pacific - Longview (0.1 TCR gap)

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Wilmington, NC - SEC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wilmington, NC - SEC averages 7.2 TCR (160% of the Marine cargo handling services BLS benchmark).

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

Wilmington, NC - SEC TCR series: 2022=7.3 · 2023=6 · 2024=8.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Wilmington, NC - SEC falls in its industry

391 Marine cargo handling services establishments

Safer than 29% 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 #3 safest of 10 Marine cargo handling services employers in North Carolina.

Wilmington, NC - SEC (63 employees, TCR 7.2) 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 Wilmington, NC - SEC
Wilmington, NC - SEC (63 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Wilmington, NC - SEC has fewer employees than the Marine cargo handling 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
2024 8.3 3.3 5 0 0
2023 6.0 3.0 4 0 0
2022 7.3 2.9 3 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488320 · NC · Wilmington

391 Marine cargo handling 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 SSA Pacific - Longview 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Galveston Pier 10 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dundalk Marine Terminal 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marine Terminals Corporation - Fairfield 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Smith Energy Complex 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Union Power Cooperative - Oakboro 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Asheboro Office 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE SOUTH DURHAM OPERATIONS 63 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 IBS San Bernardino 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Walla Walla Grocery Outlet 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Quality Environmental Inc. 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Hdc1 amazon 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nal Mattoon Service Plant 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE IBR Logistics INC 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE McCullough Industries DBA MCI INC. 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Western Specialty Contractors -Minneapolis 63 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. 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.