Employer · North Carolina

494 - Asheville

Asheville, NC · ~89 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

494 - Asheville runs at 128% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

494 - Asheville: 4.3 TCR = 128% of industry BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

494 - Asheville safety composite

494 - Asheville scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 27%), 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).

D

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

−1.3

2016→2022

494 - Asheville injury rate improved

494 - Asheville's TCR fell 1.3 from 4.3 in 2016 to 3.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 9.4 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.3 · 2017=4.6 · 2018=9.4 · 2019=4.7 · 2020=0.0 · 2022=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452210 · Asheville, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 128% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #51/68
  • PHOTO 71437
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~89 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 71437 (0.0 TCR gap)

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494 - Asheville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 494 - Asheville averages 4.3 TCR (128% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

494 - Asheville TCR series: 2016=4.3 · 2017=4.6 · 2018=9.4 · 2019=4.7 · 2020=0 · 2022=3 · BLS 3.4

Where 494 - Asheville falls in its industry

2,917 industry establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #51 safest of 68 industry employers in North Carolina.

494 - Asheville (89 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 494 - Asheville
494 - Asheville (89 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 3.1

494 - Asheville has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 3.0 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 4.7 0.0 2 0 0
2018 9.4 9.4 4 0 0
2017 4.6 4.6 2 0 0
2016 4.3 2.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452210 · NC · Asheville

2,917 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 290 employers in Asheville, 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 71437 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1005 Columbia 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 506 - South Elgin 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1452 - New Milford 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE C.T. Wilson Construction Company, Inc. 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate Office 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kinetic Systems Inc. Durham Office-Shop NC 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cross Technologies Inc Whitsett 89 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mission Hospital; MH Hospital Manager, LLC 8,097 FTE
CITY-NEAR Biltmore Workforce Management 1,894 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mission Medical Associates 1,336 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Care Partners 1,018 FTE
NAT-TCR 506 - South Elgin 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR East Hartford High School 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 1452 - New Milford 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Blue Ocean New Energy 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 521 - Woodlands 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE 437 - Stockbridge 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE 427 - Owasso 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE 593 - Corona North 89 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: 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.