Elementary schools · North Carolina

Cape Hatteras Elementary

Buxton, NC · ~62 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cape Hatteras Elementary runs at 389% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Elementary schools workplace, earning a grade F.

Cape Hatteras Elementary: 5.5 TCR = 389% of Elementary schools BLS 1.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cape Hatteras Elementary safety composite

Cape Hatteras Elementary scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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%).

Cape Hatteras Elementary held a steady TCR band

Cape Hatteras Elementary's TCR held near 0.0 from 4.3 in 2021 to 4.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 10.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=4.3 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=10.9 · 2024=4.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Buxton, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.5 · 389% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #14/19
  • PHOTO Lincoln Elementary
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~62 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lincoln Elementary (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cape Hatteras Elementary in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cape Hatteras Elementary averages 5.5 TCR (389% of the Elementary schools BLS benchmark).

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

Cape Hatteras Elementary TCR series: 2021=4.3 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=10.9 · 2024=4.4 · BLS 1.4

Where Cape Hatteras Elementary falls in its industry

3,374 Elementary schools establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 19 Elementary schools employers in North Carolina.

Cape Hatteras Elementary (62 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Cape Hatteras Elementary
Cape Hatteras Elementary (62 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Cape Hatteras Elementary has fewer employees than the Elementary schools median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2024 4.4 2.2 2 0 0
2023 10.9 0.0 5 0 0
2022 2.2 2.2 1 0 0
2021 4.3 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · NC · Buxton

3,374 Elementary schools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 4 employers in Buxton, 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 Lincoln Elementary 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Denfeld High School 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Silver Bell Learning Center 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marshall High School 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE CENTRAL PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT -EST 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Boseman Farms, Inc. 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE South Durham 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenville - New Bern 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAPE HATTERAS SECONDARY 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cape Hatteras Electric Membership Corporation 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cape Hatteras Electric Cooperative 25 FTE
NAT-TCR Milk Procurement 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Union Avenue Consolidated 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Schaeffler Group USA Inc. Joplin 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - FTW9 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Location 1 / UC 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kaunakakai, HI 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eastern Iowa Dental Clinic 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avera Eureka Health Care 62 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.