Executive and legislative office combinations · North Carolina

Burke County EMS- Station 1

Morganton, NC · ~24 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
22.9
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Burke County EMS- Station 1 runs at 717% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Executive and legislative office combinations workplace, earning a grade F.

Burke County EMS- Station 1: 22.9 TCR = 717% of Executive and legislative office combinations BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Burke County EMS- Station 1 safety composite

Burke County EMS- Station 1 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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).

F

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 22.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 19.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

Fatalities
C 0

Safer than 55% 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%).

Burke County EMS- Station 1 held a steady TCR band

Burke County EMS- Station 1's TCR held near 0.0 from 22.9 in 2022 to 22.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 22.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=22.9 · 2023=22.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921140 · Morganton, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 22.9 · 717% of ind

  • DART 19.1 DART
  • RANK #34/34
  • PHOTO NASHVILLE FIRE DEPAR…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NASHVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT (0.4 TCR gap)

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Burke County EMS- Station 1 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Burke County EMS- Station 1 averages 22.9 TCR (717% of the Executive and legislative office combinations BLS benchmark).

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

Burke County EMS- Station 1 TCR series: 2022=22.9 · 2023=22.9 · BLS 3.2

Where Burke County EMS- Station 1 falls in its industry

239 Executive and legislative offi establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #34 safest of 34 Executive and legislative offi employers in North Carolina.

Burke County EMS- Station 1 (24 employees, TCR 22.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 282 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 01,0002,0003,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Burke County EMS- Station 1
Burke County EMS- Station 1 (24 employees, TCR 22.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 282 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Burke County EMS- Station 1 has fewer employees than the Executive and legislative office combina median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2023 22.9 19.1 5 1 0
2022 22.9 15.3 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921140 · NC · Morganton

239 Executive and legislative office combinations employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 106 employers in Morganton, 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 NASHVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT 23.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Town of Mountain City 26.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sheriff's Office- Jail 19.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Conservation - Hickory Grove Park 27.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Open Grounds Farm, Inc. 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Super-Sod Charlotte 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holland Farms, Inc 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE CENTRAL LNM-EST 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR DEX-BLUE RIDGE HOSPITAL 3,263 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Ridge HealthCare Hospitals, Inc. 1,461 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0090-BRHC Hospitals 1,460 FTE
CITY-NEAR Broughton Hospital 1,198 FTE
NAT-TCR E.L. Shea, Inc. 22.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Nj-Mkllc-New Jersey 22.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Mawlg - Wilmington 22.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Rush Medical Clinic Philadelphia 22.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mesa Moving and Storage Boise 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mesa Moving and Storage Bozeman, LLC 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE SGS Retail - Point Comfort 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE AWI Auto Value Performance Jackson Main 24 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: 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.