Employer · North Carolina

501 - Asheville

Arden, NC · ~62 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.4
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

501 - Asheville runs at 438% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

501 - Asheville: 11.4 TCR = 438% of industry BLS 2.6 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

501 - Asheville safety composite

501 - Asheville scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

501 - Asheville: 10.1 → 11.6 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 12.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.8× in 2023

501 - Asheville's TCR rose 1.6 from 10.1 in 2020 to 11.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 12.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Arden, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.4 · 438% of ind

  • DART 9.1 DART
  • RANK #81/87
  • PHOTO Mid Valley Recycling…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~62 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mid Valley Recycling, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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501 - Asheville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 501 - Asheville averages 11.4 TCR (438% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

501 - Asheville TCR series: 2020=10.1 · 2021=12.9 · 2022=11 · 2023=11.6 · BLS 2.6

Where 501 - Asheville falls in its industry

2,322 industry establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #81 safest of 87 industry employers in North Carolina.

501 - Asheville (62 employees, TCR 11.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate 501 - Asheville
501 - Asheville (62 employees, TCR 11.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

501 - Asheville has more employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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
2023 11.6 9.1 9 0 0
2022 11.0 9.6 8 0 0
2021 12.9 10.0 9 0 0
2020 10.1 10.1 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · NC · Arden

2,322 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 77 employers in Arden, 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 Mid Valley Recycling, LLC 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waste Pro 609 - Greenwood 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Republic Services of Indiana 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gardena Hauling - Republic Services 11.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE CENTRAL PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT -EST 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Boseman Farms, Inc. 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE South Durham 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenville - New Bern 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASHEVILLE NC 997 FTE
CITY-NEAR DUKE-ASHEVILLE 847 FTE
CITY-NEAR BorgWarner Asheville 680 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jabil Healthcare Asheville 566 FTE
NAT-TCR Phillip Himmelfarb Trust 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Elite Concrete Construction, Inc. 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Vineyard Park Puyallup 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR HG242 11.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE EDEP 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE MCROpp New York Royal44 Tenant LLC 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roscioli Yachting Center 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Food 4 Less - Paso Robles 62 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.