Telecommunications · North Carolina

ANASH - Asheville- NC

Name: ANASH - Asheville- NC Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Candler, NC · ~26 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 4.8
Avg TCR: 2.8
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

ANASH - Asheville- NC runs at 172% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Telecommunications workplace, earning a grade D.

ANASH - Asheville- NC: 4.8 TCR = 172% of Telecommunications BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ANASH - Asheville- NC safety composite

ANASH - Asheville- NC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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).

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 4.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers
DART rate: F 7.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

ANASH - Asheville- NC: 3.5 → 7.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 7.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.46× in 2018

ANASH - Asheville- NC's TCR rose 3.5 from 3.5 in 2016 to 7.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Candler, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 172% of ind

DART 7.1 DART
RANK #68/79
PHOTO Extreme Excavating
BOOK 3y book
INJ 4 inj
SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Extreme Excavating (0.0 TCR gap)

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4.8
Extreme Excava

4.8
HWPOWER, INC.

4.8
Pelham, AL Off

4.8
JKL Associates

4.8

What this shows ANASH - Asheville- NC averages 4.8 TCR (172% of the Telecommunications BLS benchmark).

ANASH - Asheville- NC TCR series: 2016=3.5 · 2017=3.9 · 2018=7.1 · BLS 2.8

Where ANASH - Asheville- NC falls in its industry

1,605 Telecommunications establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #68 safest of 79 Telecommunications employers in North Carolina.

ANASH - Asheville- NC (26 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

ANASH - Asheville- NC has fewer employees than the Telecommunications median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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
2018	7.1	7.1	2
2017	3.9	3.9	1
2016	3.5	3.5	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · NC · Candler

1,605 Telecommunications employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 17 employers in Candler, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Extreme Excavating	CANBY, OR	4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	HWPOWER, INC.	ANAHEIM, CA	4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Pelham, AL Office CS	PEHLEM, AL	4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	JKL Associates, Inc	BILLINGS, MT	4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	R. A. Wood Farms, Inc.	SNOW HILL	26 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Yarbrough Farms LLC	PROSPECT HILL	26 FTE
STATE-SIZE	SOUTH LNM- EST	LAURINBURG	26 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Case Farms Goldsboro Hatchery	GOLDSBORO	26 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Store 134	Candler	225 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Jacob Holm	Candler	170 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Tennoca Construction Company	Candler	161 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Pisgah Valley Retirement Center	Candler	140 FTE
NAT-TCR	Rice Lake (Wiric)	Rice Lake, WI	4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Holland - IN	Indianapolis, IN	4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	JX Peterbilt - Rockford	Rockford, IL	4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Summer Place Nursing and Rehabilitation	Beaumont, TX	4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	George's Springdale Live Haul	Springdale, AR	26 FTE
NAT-SIZE	CB104 - South Bend,IN	South Bend, IN	26 FTE
NAT-SIZE	3318 Econofoods (Norwood Mn)	Norwood, MN	26 FTE
NAT-SIZE	PT527 - York, PA Core	York, PA	26 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: 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.