General public administration · North Carolina

City of Kannapolis

Kannapolis, NC · ~532 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Kannapolis runs at 173% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General public administration workplace, earning a grade D.

City of Kannapolis: 5.5 TCR = 173% of General public administration BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Kannapolis safety composite

City of Kannapolis scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.2

2016→2017

City of Kannapolis injury rate improved

City of Kannapolis's TCR fell 1.2 from 6.2 in 2016 to 4.9 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.2 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.2 · 2017=4.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921190 · Kannapolis, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 173% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #75/105
  • PHOTO Guilford County - Pr…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 46 inj
  • SIZE ~532 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Guilford County - Property Management/Parks and Recreation (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Kannapolis in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Kannapolis averages 5.5 TCR (173% of the General public administration BLS benchmark).

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

City of Kannapolis TCR series: 2016=6.2 · 2017=4.9 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Kannapolis falls in its industry

1,496 General public administration establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #75 safest of 105 General public administration employers in North Carolina.

City of Kannapolis (532 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 0200400600800 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Kannapolis
City of Kannapolis (532 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6

City of Kannapolis has more employees than the General public administration median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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
2017 4.9 3.1 20 2 0
2016 6.2 5.7 26 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921190 · NC · Kannapolis

1,496 General public administration employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 57 employers in Kannapolis, 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 Guilford County - Property Management/Parks and Recreation 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village of Niles - Administration 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Public Works 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Government Complex (County Courts, Administration & Law Enforcement Buildings) 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Alamance Foods Cedar Crest 532 FTE
STATE-SIZE MNA - Raleigh/Field 532 FTE
STATE-SIZE Novant Health Kernersville Medical Center 532 FTE
STATE-SIZE Continental Automotive Systems, Inc 531 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kannapolis City Schools 850 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2005 427 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2005 404 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cabarrus Health Alliance 286 FTE
NAT-TCR St. Joseph Health Center 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Core Converting Operations 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 0005 - Bakersfield, CA 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Foster Ave (Nyfos) 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Southeast Georgia Health System Cooperative Health Services, Inc. 532 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America, Inc. 532 FTE
NAT-SIZE Therapeutic Resources Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapy Services, LLP 532 FTE
NAT-SIZE Townline 532 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: 2017, 2016. 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.