Telecommunications · North Carolina

ANS:ANASH - ANASH-Asheville, NC

Candler, NC · ~25 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

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

ANS:ANASH - ANASH-Asheville, NC: 3.6 TCR = 128% of Telecommunications BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ANS:ANASH - ANASH-Asheville, NC safety composite

ANS:ANASH - ANASH-Asheville, NC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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%).

TCR Δ

−7.1

2018→2020

ANS:ANASH - ANASH-Asheville, NC injury rate improved

ANS:ANASH - ANASH-Asheville, NC's TCR fell 7.1 from 7.1 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=7.1 · 2019=3.7 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 3.6 · 128% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #62/79
  • PHOTO Division #3
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Division #3 (0.0 TCR gap)

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ANS:ANASH - ANASH-Asheville, NC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ANS:ANASH - ANASH-Asheville, NC averages 3.6 TCR (128% of the Telecommunications BLS benchmark).

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

ANS:ANASH - ANASH-Asheville, NC TCR series: 2018=7.1 · 2019=3.7 · 2020=0 · BLS 2.8

Where ANS:ANASH - ANASH-Asheville, NC falls in its industry

1,605 Telecommunications establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #62 safest of 79 Telecommunications employers in North Carolina.

ANS:ANASH - ANASH-Asheville, NC (25 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate ANS:ANASH - ANASH-Asheville, NC
ANS:ANASH - ANASH-Asheville, NC (25 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

ANS:ANASH - 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.7 3.7 1 0 0
2018 7.1 7.1 2 0 0

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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Division #3 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR HHS Construction, LLC 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Air2 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hutchins Telecom 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fair View Nursery, Inc. 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE John William Carter III 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hill of Berry's 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Andrew Tyson Farms 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Store 134 225 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jacob Holm 170 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tennoca Construction Company 161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pisgah Valley Retirement Center 140 FTE
NAT-TCR Innovative Outdoor Solutions, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 780 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 11 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon Transportation Services : EWR5 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE ANS:ANAUG - ANAUG-Augusta, GA 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE ECC:EC012 - EC012-Decatur, AL-0100 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE TDC:TDGIR - TDGIR-Girard, PA 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Primrose Lease Management LLC dba Primrose of Rapid City 25 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.