Employer · North Carolina

249 - Matthews

Matthews, NC · ~127 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

249 - Matthews runs at 52% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade B.

249 - Matthews: 1.8 TCR = 52% of industry BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

249 - Matthews safety composite

249 - Matthews scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

Rising injury rate

249 - Matthews: 1.4 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 3.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2019

249 - Matthews's TCR rose 1.6 from 1.4 in 2016 to 3.0 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Matthews, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 52% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #16/113
  • PHOTO 2860 - Lake Bluff
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~127 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2860 - Lake Bluff (0.0 TCR gap)

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249 - Matthews in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 249 - Matthews averages 1.8 TCR (52% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

249 - Matthews TCR series: 2016=1.4 · 2017=2.8 · 2018=0 · 2019=3 · BLS 3.4

Where 249 - Matthews falls in its industry

4,991 industry establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 113 industry employers in North Carolina.

249 - Matthews (127 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 249 - Matthews
249 - Matthews (127 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

249 - Matthews has more employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2019 3.0 0.0 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 2.8 1.4 2 0 0
2016 1.4 1.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · NC · Matthews

4,991 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 94 employers in Matthews, 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 2860 - Lake Bluff 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR WM 446 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unit #1048 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR South West Distribution Center - SWDC 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Brunswick Electric Membership Cooperative - 1 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mooresboro 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crowder Construction Company - Heavy Civil Division 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE Emory Electric, LLC 127 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Matthews Medical Center 1,070 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6921-06000 688 FTE
CITY-NEAR DC201 DC201 MATTHEWS NC 518 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4186-DC201 353 FTE
NAT-TCR 00-TTCO-BIRMINGHAM 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Radial INC- 7601 Trade Port 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-Swy 0029 1969 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Comm HVAC NA and EMEA : SVC-Rocky Mountain District : SVC-Denver CO-USA 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 332 - Ann Arbor 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northwest Station 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sand Island Wastewater Treatment Plant 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 0745 127 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: 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.