Parks, nature · North Carolina

City of Asheville - Parks and Recreation

Asheville, NC · ~189 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.6
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Asheville - Parks and Recreation runs at 341% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Parks, nature workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Asheville - Parks and Recreation: 10.6 TCR = 341% of Parks, nature BLS 3.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Asheville - Parks and Recreation safety composite

City of Asheville - Parks and Recreation scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

City of Asheville - Parks and Recreation: 10.0 → 12.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 12.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.7× in 2024

City of Asheville - Parks and Recreation's TCR rose 2.3 from 10.0 in 2021 to 12.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712190 · Asheville, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.6 · 341% of ind

  • DART 7.4 DART
  • RANK P20
  • PHOTO 9025-34 CONSERVATION
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 48 inj
  • SIZE ~189 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 9025-34 CONSERVATION (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Asheville - Parks and Recreation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Asheville - Parks and Recreation averages 10.6 TCR (341% of the Parks, nature BLS benchmark).

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

City of Asheville - Parks and Recreation TCR series: 2021=10 · 2022=10.8 · 2023=9.2 · 2024=12.3 · BLS 3.1

Where City of Asheville - Parks and Recreation falls in its industry

126 Parks, nature establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
City of Asheville - Parks and Recreation (189 employees, TCR 10.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 6.7 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 City of Asheville - Parks and Recreation
City of Asheville - Parks and Recreation (189 employees, TCR 10.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 6.7

City of Asheville - Parks and Recreation has more employees than the Parks, nature median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.7. 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 12.3 7.4 12 3 0
2023 9.2 8.4 11 0 0
2022 10.8 7.5 13 0 0
2021 10.0 7.5 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712190 · NC · Asheville

126 Parks, nature 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 9025-34 CONSERVATION 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Form 300A Kenlake State Resort PARK 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Champaign County Forest Preserve District 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR HRT MTAGUE TRL SLVR LK PK -DNR 10.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mechanical Contractors Inc. 189 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Agents Companies 189 FTE
STATE-SIZE Morinaga America Foods, Inc. 189 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northampton Peanut Company 189 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 Dgdg 19 LLC 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 333 Enterprise St 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR MCO-ITP 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR NORTH STAR Vessel LLC 10.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hatzel & Buehler Inc. - Philadelphia 189 FTE
NAT-SIZE Boston 189 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hayward Nashville 189 FTE
NAT-SIZE 090 - Walker GM 189 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.

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