Ambulance and fire service combined · North Carolina

EMS

Lenoir, NC · ~116 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

EMS runs at 128% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ambulance and fire service combined workplace, earning a grade D.

EMS: 4.1 TCR = 128% of Ambulance and fire service combined BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

EMS safety composite

EMS scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 4.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−5.1

2022→2024

EMS injury rate improved

EMS's TCR fell 5.1 from 6.7 in 2022 to 1.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=6.7 · 2024=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Lenoir, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 128% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #19/36
  • PHOTO Fire
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~116 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fire (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 4.1 TCR (128% of the Ambulance and fire service combined BLS benchmark).

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

EMS TCR series: 2022=6.7 · 2024=1.5 · BLS 3.2

Where EMS falls in its industry

793 Ambulance and fire service com establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 36 Ambulance and fire service com employers in North Carolina.

EMS (116 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate EMS
EMS (116 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

EMS has more employees than the Ambulance and fire service combined median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.8. 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 1.5 1.5 2 0 0
2022 6.7 6.7 3 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · NC · Lenoir

793 Ambulance and fire service combined employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 86 employers in Lenoir, 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 Fire 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crete Fire Department 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Belleville - Belleville Fire Department 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village of Schaumburg - Fire Department 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Carolina Egg Companies 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE CE Holt Refrigeration 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newton Container 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4301 Waterleaf 116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Caldwell Memorial Hospital 781 FTE
CITY-NEAR HHG Lenoir Upholstery Plant 500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Exela Pharma Sciences, LLC. 494 FTE
CITY-NEAR Caldwell County Government 451 FTE
NAT-TCR S02968 - Fresno Hauling 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Farm and Fleet of Muscatine 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Farm and Fleet of Woodstock 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR USA Wood Door 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 483021-Altoona | PA | AST-000 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rusty Rail Brewing Co. LLC 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE CalPortland Company 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE Des Plaines Rehabilitation and Health Care Center 116 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, 2022. 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.