Heavy Highway · North Carolina

Winston Salem Northern Belt Way

Name: Winston Salem Northern Belt Way Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Kernersville, NC · ~65 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 6.3
Avg TCR: 2.8
Industry avg: 1
Fatality

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The verdict

Winston Salem Northern Belt Way runs at 223% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Heavy Highway workplace, earning a grade F.

Winston Salem Northern Belt Way: 6.3 TCR = 223% of Heavy Highway BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Winston Salem Northern Belt Way safety composite

Winston Salem Northern Belt Way scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 33% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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).

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 6.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers
DART rate: F 2.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers
Fatalities: F 1

Safer than 3% 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

Winston Salem Northern Belt Way: 5.2 → 7.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 9.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.39× in 2020

Winston Salem Northern Belt Way's TCR rose 2.1 from 5.2 in 2016 to 7.3 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 9.5 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Kernersville, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.3 · 223% of ind

DART 2.5 DART
RANK #101/120
PHOTO Nelson County Road D…
BOOK 4y book
INJ 18 inj
SIZE ~65 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nelson County Road Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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6.3
Nelson County

6.3
D2 Mt Carroll

6.3
Region 4 - Bld

6.3
E & B Paving L

6.2

What this shows Winston Salem Northern Belt Way averages 6.3 TCR (223% of the Heavy Highway BLS benchmark).

Winston Salem Northern Belt Way TCR series: 2016=5.2 · 2018=9.5 · 2019=2.9 · 2020=7.3 · BLS 2.8

Where Winston Salem Northern Belt Way falls in its industry

4,078 Heavy Highway establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #101 safest of 120 Heavy Highway employers in North Carolina.

Winston Salem Northern Belt Way (65 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Winston Salem Northern Belt Way has fewer employees than the Heavy Highway median and a higher 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
2020	7.3	2.5	3	0	0
2019	2.9	1.5	2	0	0
2018	9.5	6.4	8	1	0
2016	5.2	0.0	5	0	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · NC · Kernersville

4,078 Heavy Highway employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 93 employers in Kernersville, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Nelson County Road Department	BARDSTOWN, KY	6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	D2 Mt Carroll Yard	MT. CARROLL, IL	6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Region 4 - Bldg B	BEND, OR	6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	E & B Paving LLC - FLEET MAINTENANCE	ANDERSON, IN	6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	AgMart Produce, Inc. LELAND, NC	LELAND	65 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Sanderson Farms Kinston Hatchery	KINSTON	65 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Mayo Fossil Plant	ROXBORO	65 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Newell Operations Center	CHARLOTTE	65 FTE
CITY-NEAR	6458-GRNB	Kernersville	1,399 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Amazon.com Services LLC - GSO1	Kernersville	968 FTE
CITY-NEAR	274	Kernersville	797 FTE
CITY-NEAR	John Deere Kernersville	Kernersville	782 FTE
NAT-TCR	CHC Mechnical Contractors, Inc.	Cookeville, TN	6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	172 Palmdale East	Palmdale, CA	6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Penobscot Bay Medical Center	Rockport, ME	6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Kettering Medical Center	Kettering, OH	6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Ari Nkc	North Kansas City, MO	65 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Mid Country Machinery	Fort Dodge, IA	65 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Marquette Board of Light and Power	Marquette, MI	65 FTE
NAT-SIZE	174 Napa	Napa, CA	65 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.