Water treatment and distribution · North Carolina

City of Raleigh- Public Utilities

Raleigh, NC · ~569 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Raleigh- Public Utilities runs at 518% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Water treatment and distribution workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Raleigh- Public Utilities: 6.2 TCR = 518% of Water treatment and distribution BLS 1.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Raleigh- Public Utilities safety composite

City of Raleigh- Public Utilities scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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 Raleigh- Public Utilities: 4.2 → 8.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.71× in 2024

City of Raleigh- Public Utilities's TCR rose 4.5 from 4.2 in 2022 to 8.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 6.2 · 518% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #23/33
  • PHOTO Great Basin Water Co…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 102 inj
  • SIZE ~569 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Great Basin Water Company - Pahrump (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Raleigh- Public Utilities in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Raleigh- Public Utilities averages 6.2 TCR (518% of the Water treatment and distribution BLS benchmark).

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

City of Raleigh- Public Utilities TCR series: 2022=4.2 · 2023=5.8 · 2024=8.7 · BLS 1.2

Where City of Raleigh- Public Utilities falls in its industry

727 Water treatment and distributi establishments

Safer than 32% 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 #23 safest of 33 Water treatment and distributi employers in North Carolina.

City of Raleigh- Public Utilities (569 employees, TCR 6.2) 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Raleigh- Public Utilities
City of Raleigh- Public Utilities (569 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

City of Raleigh- Public Utilities has more employees than the Water treatment and distribution 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
2024 8.7 4.4 49 0 0
2023 5.8 3.5 31 0 0
2022 4.2 2.9 22 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · NC · Raleigh

727 Water treatment and distribution employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 973 employers in Raleigh, 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 Great Basin Water Company - Pahrump 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Water Equipment Technologies 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Louisiana Water Company 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR LASAN - Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sports Endeavors (Mebane, NC) 569 FTE
STATE-SIZE The City of Statesville 569 FTE
STATE-SIZE Police 568 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jabil Healthcare Asheville 566 FTE
CITY-NEAR Headway Workforce Solutions 13,936 FTE
CITY-NEAR NC State University 11,491 FTE
CITY-NEAR UNC Rex Healthcare 7,282 FTE
CITY-NEAR SECU 6,283 FTE
NAT-TCR 473009-Sandy | OR | ORE-830 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR LECO Corporation -- Ceramics 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Canton 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Let's Do Lunch, Inc. dba Integrated Food Service 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE SSA Terminals, LLC A90-94 569 FTE
NAT-SIZE AJM Packaging - Southgate 569 FTE
NAT-SIZE MSI Express - Batavia 569 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dnr Operations Slc 569 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.