Heat treating metals and metal products for the trade · North Carolina

Zion Industries Hildebran Plant

Hildebran, NC · ~25 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Zion Industries Hildebran Plant runs at 413% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Heat treating metals and metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade F.

Zion Industries Hildebran Plant: 13.6 TCR = 413% of Heat treating metals and metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Zion Industries Hildebran Plant safety composite

Zion Industries Hildebran Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Zion Industries Hildebran Plant: 8.3 → 14.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 20.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.06× in 2020

Zion Industries Hildebran Plant's TCR rose 6.1 from 8.3 in 2016 to 14.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 20.5 TCR. In 2020, DART was 1.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332811 · Hildebran, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.6 · 413% of ind

  • DART 14.5 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Bodycote Winchester
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bodycote Winchester (0.5 TCR gap)

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Zion Industries Hildebran Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Zion Industries Hildebran Plant averages 13.6 TCR (413% of the Heat treating metals and metal products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

Zion Industries Hildebran Plant TCR series: 2016=8.3 · 2018=11.3 · 2019=20.5 · 2020=14.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Zion Industries Hildebran Plant falls in its industry

248 Heat treating metals and metal establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Heat treating metals and metal employers in North Carolina.

Zion Industries Hildebran Plant (25 employees, TCR 13.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Zion Industries Hildebran Plant
Zion Industries Hildebran Plant (25 employees, TCR 13.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Zion Industries Hildebran Plant has fewer employees than the Heat treating metals and metal products median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 14.5 14.5 2 0 0
2019 20.5 6.8 3 0 0
2018 11.3 7.5 3 0 0
2016 8.3 8.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332811 · NC · Hildebran

248 Heat treating metals and metal products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 14 employers in Hildebran, 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 Bodycote Winchester 14.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Commercial Steel Treating Corporation 14.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Colson Group LLC 13.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bodycote Thermal Processing Inc. - Covington 14.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fair View Nursery, Inc. 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE John William Carter III 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hill of Berry's 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Andrew Tyson Farms 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR MK Hildebran 223 FTE
CITY-NEAR Geiger Seating MillerKnoll 170 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plant 15 Hildebran 154 FTE
CITY-NEAR Geiger Hildebran 140 FTE
NAT-TCR Darby Glenn Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 13.6 TCR
NAT-TCR SCP Atlanta Plant 13.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Bay Therm-Oneida #270 13.6 TCR
NAT-TCR JAX - Ground Ops 13.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Discover Goodwill of Southern and Western Colorado- Residential Services 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE TIDS-Katy Distribtion Center 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vcf 067 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE APAC KS Inc., Shears Division - Hutchinson Branch 25 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.