Painting and wallpapering · North Carolina

A & K Painting Company

Charlotte, NC · ~70 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

A & K Painting Company runs at 10% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Painting and wallpapering workplace, earning a grade A.

A & K Painting Company: 0.3 TCR = 10% of Painting and wallpapering BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

A & K Painting Company safety composite

A & K Painting Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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%).

A & K Painting Company held a steady TCR band

A & K Painting Company's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 1.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=1.1 · 2018=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238320 · Charlotte, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.3 · 10% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/15
  • PHOTO Schaper Virginia
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Schaper Virginia (0.0 TCR gap)

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A & K Painting Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows A & K Painting Company averages 0.3 TCR (10% of the Painting and wallpapering BLS benchmark).

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

A & K Painting Company TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=1.1 · 2018=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where A & K Painting Company falls in its industry

582 Painting and wallpapering establishments

Safer than 98% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 15 Painting and wallpapering employers in North Carolina.

A & K Painting Company (70 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate A & K Painting Company
A & K Painting Company (70 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 2.8

A & K Painting Company has more employees than the Painting and wallpapering median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238320 · NC · Charlotte

582 Painting and wallpapering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 2,058 employers in Charlotte, 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 Schaper Virginia 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cannon Sline Industrial, Inc. 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR LD Bundren Painting 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Miller Paneling Specialties, Inc. 0.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE SHARP FARM INC 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jackson Farming Company 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE ACT Power Services, LLC 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1101-Carolinas Medical Center (1101) 8,444 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0001-Carolinas Medical Center 8,032 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4795-AA-CLT-CHARLOTTE-CLT-TRML 7,295 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center 4,973 FTE
NAT-TCR Raytheon_Huntsville_AL_Jan Davis Drive 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Kajima Building & Design Group Inc 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ecolab - Elk Grove Village 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR AHC Resource Center 0.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Phoenix Office 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Civil Werx LLC 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Apexel LLC 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0677 Westlake 70 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: 2024, 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.