Elementary and secondary schools · North Carolina

Cherokee County Schools

Murphy, NC · ~474 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cherokee County Schools runs at 161% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Elementary and secondary schools workplace, earning a grade D.

Cherokee County Schools: 2.3 TCR = 161% of Elementary and secondary schools BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cherokee County Schools safety composite

Cherokee County Schools scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Cherokee County Schools: 1.7 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 2.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2020

Cherokee County Schools's TCR rose 1.2 from 1.7 in 2019 to 2.9 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Murphy, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 2.3 · 161% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/19
  • PHOTO Central Office
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~474 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Central Office (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cherokee County Schools in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cherokee County Schools averages 2.3 TCR (161% of the Elementary and secondary schools BLS benchmark).

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

Cherokee County Schools TCR series: 2019=1.7 · 2020=2.9 · BLS 1.4

Where Cherokee County Schools falls in its industry

3,374 Elementary and secondary schoo establishments

Safer than 73% 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 #4 safest of 19 Elementary and secondary schoo employers in North Carolina.

Cherokee County Schools (474 employees, TCR 2.3) 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 Cherokee County Schools
Cherokee County Schools (474 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Cherokee County Schools has more employees than the Elementary and secondary schools median and a lower 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
2020 2.9 0.0 12 0 0
2019 1.7 1.7 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · NC · Murphy

3,374 Elementary and secondary schools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 24 employers in Murphy, 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 Central Office 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR GENESEO CUSD #228 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sebeka Public School 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manzanita Elementary 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE STR0986 474 FTE
STATE-SIZE Quality Staffing Solutions, Inc. 474 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0006-Behav Health Charlotte 474 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wayne Brothers Inc. 473 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harrah's Cherokee Valley River Casino and Hotel 914 FTE
CITY-NEAR Erlanger Western Carolina Hospital 434 FTE
CITY-NEAR Moog Inc. 393 FTE
CITY-NEAR Moog, Inc - Murphy 378 FTE
NAT-TCR Nitrex, Inc. - NV Operations 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR DIC Imaging Products USA 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Apollo Center 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sutter Health Sacramento Sierra Region (110-9302) 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Swg Corporate Headquarters 0091-Fac20 474 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southern MN Beet Sugar Cooperative 474 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clearwater Paper Lewistion CPD 474 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coca Cola Puerto Rico Botllers Bayamon 474 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: 2020, 2019. 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.