Fossil Fuel Electric Power Generation · North Carolina

Belews Creek Steam Station

Belews Creek, NC · ~166 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Belews Creek Steam Station runs at 51% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Fossil Fuel Electric Power Generation workplace, earning a grade B.

Belews Creek Steam Station: 0.6 TCR = 51% of Fossil Fuel Electric Power Generation BLS 1.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Belews Creek Steam Station safety composite

Belews Creek Steam Station scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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%).

Belews Creek Steam Station held a steady TCR band

Belews Creek Steam Station's TCR held near 0.3 from 1.0 in 2016 to 0.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 1.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.0 · 2017=1.8 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.6 · 2020=1.4 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221112 · Belews Creek, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 0.6 · 51% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #9/20
  • PHOTO 00601 MERWIN HYDRO P…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~166 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 00601 MERWIN HYDRO PLNT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Belews Creek Steam Station in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Belews Creek Steam Station averages 0.6 TCR (51% of the Fossil Fuel Electric Power Generation BLS benchmark).

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

Belews Creek Steam Station TCR series: 2016=1 · 2017=1.8 · 2018=0 · 2019=0.6 · 2020=1.4 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0.7 · BLS 1.2

Where Belews Creek Steam Station falls in its industry

846 Fossil Fuel Electric Power Gen establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 20 Fossil Fuel Electric Power Gen employers in North Carolina.

Belews Creek Steam Station (166 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 59 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Belews Creek Steam Station
Belews Creek Steam Station (166 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 59 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Belews Creek Steam Station has more employees than the Fossil Fuel Electric Power Generation median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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 0.7 0.7 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 1.4 1.4 2 0 0
2019 0.6 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 1.8 1.4 4 0 0
2016 1.0 0.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221112 · NC · Belews Creek

846 Fossil Fuel Electric Power Generation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 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 00601 MERWIN HYDRO PLNT 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Keystone Generating Station 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Entergy Choctaw County Generation Station 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dan E Karn 3&4 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Costa Carolina Operations, LLC 166 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Asheville Water Department 166 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midrex Technologies 166 FTE
STATE-SIZE ODI NC 166 FTE
CITY-NEAR DUKE EHC SKID REPL DEMO&INSTAL 19 FTE
NAT-TCR Cummins Filtration Inc 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Louisville Algonquin Terminal 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Rubber Fab 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Hunter Trading Company, LLC 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bowlin Energy LLC 166 FTE
NAT-SIZE Walden 166 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ventura Foods, LLC 166 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Martin Luther King Jr. La 166 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.