Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel and fabricating wire products · North Carolina

Wire Bond - Charlotte

Charlotte, NC · ~107 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wire Bond - Charlotte runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel and fabricating wire products workplace, earning a grade D.

Wire Bond - Charlotte: 4.3 TCR = 130% of Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel and fabricating wire products BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wire Bond - Charlotte safety composite

Wire Bond - Charlotte scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−4.2

2016→2021

Wire Bond - Charlotte injury rate improved

Wire Bond - Charlotte's TCR fell 4.2 from 5.0 in 2016 to 0.9 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.0 · 2018=6.9 · 2019=5.2 · 2020=3.4 · 2021=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331222 · Charlotte, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 130% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #7/9
  • PHOTO Strand Core
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~107 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Strand Core (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wire Bond - Charlotte in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wire Bond - Charlotte averages 4.3 TCR (130% of the Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel and fabricating wire products BLS benchmark).

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

Wire Bond - Charlotte TCR series: 2016=5 · 2018=6.9 · 2019=5.2 · 2020=3.4 · 2021=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Wire Bond - Charlotte falls in its industry

163 Drawing iron or steel wire fro establishments

Safer than 55% 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 #7 safest of 9 Drawing iron or steel wire fro employers in North Carolina.

Wire Bond - Charlotte (107 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Wire Bond - Charlotte
Wire Bond - Charlotte (107 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Wire Bond - Charlotte has more employees than the Drawing iron or steel wire from purchase median and a lower 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
2021 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2020 3.4 3.4 4 0 0
2019 5.2 2.6 4 2 0
2018 6.9 5.9 6 1 0
2016 5.0 4.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331222 · NC · Charlotte

163 Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel and fabricating wire products employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 2,058 employers in Charlotte, 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 Strand Core 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wire Mesh, LLC 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tri Star Metals 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zapp Precision Wire, Inc 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Durham Operations Center 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE Asheville Operations Center 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE I485 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE C&C Industrial, Inc 107 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1101-Carolinas Medical Center (1101) 8,444 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0001-Carolinas Medical Center 8,032 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4795-AA-CLT-CHARLOTTE-CLT-TRML 7,295 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center 4,973 FTE
NAT-TCR J.E.S. Plumbing & Heating Corp. 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Largo Medical Center 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Portland Marriott City Center 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #1914 DENVER, CO 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE West Coast Distribution Center 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE Valley Cartage Company Inc 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nissan of Leesburg 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE Touchpints at Farmington 107 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.