Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground · North Carolina

EMS

Asheville, NC · ~132 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.5
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

EMS runs at 223% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground workplace, earning a grade F.

EMS: 8.5 TCR = 223% of Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground BLS 3.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

EMS safety composite

EMS scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 8.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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%).

EMS held a steady TCR band

EMS's TCR held near 0.2 from 10.1 in 2016 to 9.9 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 1.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=10.1 · 2017=10.8 · 2018=4.9 · 2019=6.6 · 2020=9.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621910 · Asheville, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.5 · 223% of ind

  • DART 9.2 DART
  • RANK #11/20
  • PHOTO 1855-TNNAS55
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 57 inj
  • SIZE ~132 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1855-TNNAS55 (0.0 TCR gap)

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EMS in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows EMS averages 8.5 TCR (223% of the Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground BLS benchmark).

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

EMS TCR series: 2016=10.1 · 2017=10.8 · 2018=4.9 · 2019=6.6 · 2020=9.9 · BLS 3.8

Where EMS falls in its industry

976 Emergency medical transportati establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 20 Emergency medical transportati employers in North Carolina.

EMS (132 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate EMS
EMS (132 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3

EMS has more employees than the Emergency medical transportation service median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.3. 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 9.9 9.2 13 3 0
2019 6.6 4.6 10 0 0
2018 4.9 2.8 7 0 0
2017 10.8 6.2 14 0 0
2016 10.1 6.2 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621910 · NC · Asheville

976 Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground 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 1855-TNNAS55 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gold Cross-Eau Claire 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lima Allen County Paramedics 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Empress Ambulance Services Inc. West 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Charlotte, NC Office 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE US150: Charlotte 260 - SG 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lenoir Site 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iron Horse Contractors 132 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 Tft #557 Auburn 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Wisconsin Cheese Group - Manufacturing Facility 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Villa at the Lake 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Westford House 8.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE ORF-Military 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE PAX River 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE El Dorado Springs, MO 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oak Haven Community Care Center 132 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.