Water treatment plants · North Carolina

City of Graham

Graham, NC · ~109 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.2
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Graham runs at 1099% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Water treatment plants workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Graham: 13.2 TCR = 1099% of Water treatment plants BLS 1.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Graham safety composite

City of Graham scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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 13.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 21.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

City of Graham: 0.0 → 32.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 32.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.64× in 2022

City of Graham's TCR rose 32.4 from 0.0 in 2020 to 32.4 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221310 · Graham, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 13.2 · 1099% of ind

  • DART 21.6 DART
  • RANK #33/33
  • PHOTO W/W Line Crews
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~109 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: W/W Line Crews (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Graham in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Graham averages 13.2 TCR (1099% of the Water treatment plants BLS benchmark).

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

City of Graham TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=7.2 · 2022=32.4 · BLS 1.2

Where City of Graham falls in its industry

727 Water treatment plants establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #33 safest of 33 Water treatment plants employers in North Carolina.

City of Graham (109 employees, TCR 13.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Graham
City of Graham (109 employees, TCR 13.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

City of Graham has more employees than the Water treatment plants median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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
2022 32.4 21.6 5 1 0
2021 7.2 5.0 9 1 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · NC · Graham

727 Water treatment plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 29 employers in Graham, 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 W/W Line Crews 13.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Monte Vista Water District 13.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Beaumont-Cherry Valley Water District 13.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hixson Utility District 13.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Primoris T&D Services - Charlotte 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mid Atlantic Infrastructure Systems Inc 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gaines and company Inc 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sealand South 109 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alamance County 761 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alamance Foods Cedar Crest 532 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buckner Heavylift Cranes, LLC. 207 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASPE-South LLC 146 FTE
NAT-TCR HG820 13.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-ABS-0029-0028-01394 13.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-SWY-0025-0025-02843 13.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-SWY-0025-0025-00997 13.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Krapf School Bus NJN 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mathiowetz Construction Company 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4795-PS-GSP-GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG-GSP-PSAA 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Statesman Health and Rehabilitation Center 109 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: 2022, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.