Community social service program administration · North Carolina

Buncombe County-Social Services

Asheville, NC · ~438 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buncombe County-Social Services runs at 38% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Community social service program administration workplace, earning a grade A.

Buncombe County-Social Services: 1.2 TCR = 38% of Community social service program administration BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buncombe County-Social Services safety composite

Buncombe County-Social Services scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
F 0.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

Buncombe County-Social Services held a steady TCR band

Buncombe County-Social Services's TCR held near 0.1 from 1.3 in 2022 to 1.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 1.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=1.3 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 923130 · Asheville, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 38% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #3/10
  • PHOTO FLINT STATE OFC BLDG…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~438 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FLINT STATE OFC BLDG - DHHS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buncombe County-Social Services in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buncombe County-Social Services averages 1.2 TCR (38% of the Community social service program administration BLS benchmark).

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

Buncombe County-Social Services TCR series: 2022=1.3 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 3.2

Where Buncombe County-Social Services falls in its industry

169 Community social service progr establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 10 Community social service progr employers in North Carolina.

Buncombe County-Social Services (438 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 159 employees and a TCR of 1.7 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Buncombe County-Social Services
Buncombe County-Social Services (438 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 159 employees and a TCR of 1.7

Buncombe County-Social Services has more employees than the Community social service program adminis median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.7. 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 1.2 1.0 5 0 0
2023 1.1 0.5 3 1 0
2022 1.3 1.3 1 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

923130 · NC · Asheville

169 Community social service program administration 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 FLINT STATE OFC BLDG - DHHS 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR SSA Cypress Regional Center/FFS CalWORKS West 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR SSA CFS 1 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR DSS013 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE De Oro Foods, DBA Dorada Foods, LLC 438 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ethan Allen Operations, Inc. 438 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tencarva Machinery Company 438 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rutherford Regional Medical Center 438 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 Mallet & Co Pittsburgh 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Fallbrook 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Decatur Stratas Foods 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR OH_Akron_530 S. Main_41000100 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE AL006 Brewton Bleach Board 438 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wacker Neuson America Corporation 438 FTE
NAT-SIZE Westlake Royal Building Product 438 FTE
NAT-SIZE JandJ Vision Milpitas 438 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.