Electric Power Distribution · North Carolina

Asheville Operations Center

Asheville, NC · ~107 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Asheville Operations Center runs at 131% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Electric Power Distribution workplace, earning a grade D.

Asheville Operations Center: 1.6 TCR = 131% of Electric Power Distribution BLS 1.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Asheville Operations Center safety composite

Asheville Operations Center scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% 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).

C

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Asheville Operations Center: 0.8 → 3.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Asheville Operations Center's TCR rose 2.8 from 0.8 in 2016 to 3.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221122 · Asheville, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 1.6 · 131% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #40/107
  • PHOTO Redhawk Power Plant
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~107 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Redhawk Power Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Asheville Operations Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Asheville Operations Center averages 1.6 TCR (131% of the Electric Power Distribution BLS benchmark).

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

Asheville Operations Center TCR series: 2016=0.8 · 2017=1.4 · 2021=0.7 · 2022=3 · 2023=0 · 2024=3.6 · BLS 1.2

Where Asheville Operations Center falls in its industry

2,958 Electric Power Distribution establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #40 safest of 107 Electric Power Distribution employers in North Carolina.

Asheville Operations Center (107 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Asheville Operations Center
Asheville Operations Center (107 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Asheville Operations Center has more employees than the Electric Power Distribution median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 3.6 0.0 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.0 1.5 2 0 0
2021 0.7 0.7 1 0 0
2017 1.4 1.4 2 0 0
2016 0.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221122 · NC · Asheville

2,958 Electric Power Distribution 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 Redhawk Power Plant 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chatham County Work Center 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spartanburg Operations Center 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Three Rivers Svc Ctr 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Durham Operations Center 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE I485 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE C&C Industrial, Inc 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bartlett Milling Company, L.P. (STV) 107 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 Spartanburg Operations Center 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Imperial Carbide, Inc 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR C.G.R. Construction Co. Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Aztec 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Seven Springs Complex 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rockwell Collins Optronics Inc 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE Daniels Sharpsmart Inc - Easton 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gervais Elementary School 107 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, 2023, 2022, 2021, 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.