Fabricated structural metal manufacturing · North Carolina

WP/WNC Plant

Gastonia, NC · ~19 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

WP/WNC Plant runs at 160% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fabricated structural metal manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

WP/WNC Plant: 5.3 TCR = 160% of Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

WP/WNC Plant safety composite

WP/WNC Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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).

F

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

WP/WNC Plant: 0.0 → 7.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 17.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.33× in 2022

WP/WNC Plant's TCR rose 7.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 7.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 17.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 1.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Gastonia, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 160% of ind

  • DART 7.0 DART
  • RANK #28/41
  • PHOTO Albert Freytag, Inc.
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Albert Freytag, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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WP/WNC Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows WP/WNC Plant averages 5.3 TCR (160% of the Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

WP/WNC Plant TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=17 · 2019=5.1 · 2020=7.9 · 2021=0 · 2022=7 · BLS 3.3

Where WP/WNC Plant falls in its industry

1,491 Fabricated structural metal ma establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 41 Fabricated structural metal ma employers in North Carolina.

WP/WNC Plant (19 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 WP/WNC Plant
WP/WNC Plant (19 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

WP/WNC Plant has fewer employees than the Fabricated structural metal manufacturin median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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 7.0 7.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 7.9 0.0 1 0 0
2019 5.1 0.0 1 0 0
2018 17.0 8.5 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · NC · Gastonia

1,491 Fabricated structural metal manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 182 employers in Gastonia, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Albert Freytag, Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kern Steel Fabrication Inc 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Canam Steel Corporation 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SteelFab of Virginia Inc 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Turf Today Inc. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE A And A Farms, Inc. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buy Sod USA - Leggett Sod Farm 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Custom Shutters, INC 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston Memorial Hospital, Incorporated d/b/a CaroMont Regional Medical Center 3,156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston County Government 1,711 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wix Allen Plant 931 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gastonia Components and Logistics - Tulip 912 FTE
NAT-TCR HG1010 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR HG732 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Minnesota Veterans Home-Hastings 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Botanical Designs, LLC Seattle 5.3 TCR

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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.