Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground · North Carolina

Buncombe County-Emergency Services

Asheville, NC · ~213 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.6
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buncombe County-Emergency Services runs at 332% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground workplace, earning a grade F.

Buncombe County-Emergency Services: 12.6 TCR = 332% of Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground BLS 3.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buncombe County-Emergency Services safety composite

Buncombe County-Emergency Services scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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%).

TCR Δ

−23.3

2022→2024

Buncombe County-Emergency Services injury rate improved

Buncombe County-Emergency Services's TCR fell 23.3 from 26.4 in 2022 to 3.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 26.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=26.4 · 2023=8.3 · 2024=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621910 · Asheville, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 12.6 · 332% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #16/20
  • PHOTO A220 - EMS Chambersb…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~213 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: A220 - EMS Chambersburg (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buncombe County-Emergency Services in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buncombe County-Emergency Services averages 12.6 TCR (332% of the Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground BLS benchmark).

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

Buncombe County-Emergency Services TCR series: 2022=26.4 · 2023=8.3 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 3.8

Where Buncombe County-Emergency Services falls in its industry

976 Emergency medical transportati establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 20 Emergency medical transportati employers in North Carolina.

Buncombe County-Emergency Services (213 employees, TCR 12.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Buncombe County-Emergency Services
Buncombe County-Emergency Services (213 employees, TCR 12.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3

Buncombe County-Emergency Services has more employees than the Emergency medical transportation service median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.3. 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 3.1 0.3 9 0 0
2023 8.3 4.8 10 11 0
2022 26.4 23.0 12 42 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621910 · NC · Asheville

976 Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground 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 A220 - EMS Chambersburg 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR San Mateo ALS Operations 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Positive Mobility Inc DBA Positive Medical Transport 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Abbott St Louis Operations 12.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Recore Electrical Contractors, Inc. 213 FTE
STATE-SIZE Frontier Spinning Mills Plant 1 213 FTE
STATE-SIZE Evergreen Packaging - Waynesville 213 FTE
STATE-SIZE Procter and Gamble Manufacturing - Greensboro PHC 213 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 Mike and Fade Consult LLC 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR AAA Club Alliance Perrysburg OH Fleet 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR E & R Erectors Inc 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Westhill Newnan Crossing 12.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Effingham Il - 3176 213 FTE
NAT-SIZE Janesville Wi - 3252 213 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fire Department 213 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Joseph Mo - 3210 213 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.