Fire alarm system, electric, installation only · North Carolina

Carolina Solar Services

Durham, NC · ~42 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Carolina Solar Services runs at 34% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Fire alarm system, electric, installation only workplace, earning a grade A.

Carolina Solar Services: 0.9 TCR = 34% of Fire alarm system, electric, installation only BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carolina Solar Services safety composite

Carolina Solar Services scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Carolina Solar Services: 0.0 → 1.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Carolina Solar Services's TCR rose 1.8 from 0.0 in 2017 to 1.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238210 · Durham, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 34% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #26/108
  • PHOTO Commonwealth Electri…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Commonwealth Electric Company of the Midwest (0.0 TCR gap)

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Carolina Solar Services in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carolina Solar Services averages 0.9 TCR (34% of the Fire alarm system, electric, installation only BLS benchmark).

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

Carolina Solar Services TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=3.9 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Carolina Solar Services falls in its industry

4,550 Fire alarm system, electric, i establishments

Safer than 82% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 108 Fire alarm system, electric, i employers in North Carolina.

Carolina Solar Services (42 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Carolina Solar Services
Carolina Solar Services (42 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Carolina Solar Services has fewer employees than the Fire alarm system, electric, installatio median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.9 3.9 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238210 · NC · Durham

4,550 Fire alarm system, electric, installation only employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 530 employers in Durham, 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 Commonwealth Electric Company of the Midwest 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Long Electric Co. Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vankirk Electric 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cummings Electrical 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mount Vernon Hatchery 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE CPI USA NC LLC - Southport 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE ALBEMARLE-WMSTN 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Franklin Operations Center 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR Duke University 23,871 FTE
CITY-NEAR Duke University Hospital 11,048 FTE
CITY-NEAR BCBSNC Telecommuters 3,033 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wolfspeed - Durham, NC 3,013 FTE
NAT-TCR Nippon Dynawave Packaging 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Park Construction Company 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Inspirato LLC 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Dodson 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Colonial Park 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sedan Floral Inc 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE NK High School 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Best Mechanical 42 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, 2018, 2017. 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.