Middle schools · North Carolina

First Flight Middle

Kill Devil Hills, NC · ~89 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.9
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Flight Middle runs at 491% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Middle schools workplace, earning a grade F.

First Flight Middle: 6.9 TCR = 491% of Middle schools BLS 1.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Flight Middle safety composite

First Flight Middle scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

First Flight Middle: 6.2 → 11.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.47× in 2024

First Flight Middle's TCR rose 5.0 from 6.2 in 2022 to 11.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Kill Devil Hills, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.9 · 491% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #16/19
  • PHOTO Northeast
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~89 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Northeast (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Flight Middle in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Flight Middle averages 6.9 TCR (491% of the Middle schools BLS benchmark).

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

First Flight Middle TCR series: 2022=6.2 · 2023=3.2 · 2024=11.2 · BLS 1.4

Where First Flight Middle falls in its industry

3,374 Middle schools establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 19 Middle schools employers in North Carolina.

First Flight Middle (89 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate First Flight Middle
First Flight Middle (89 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

First Flight Middle has more employees than the Middle schools median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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 11.2 3.2 6 1 0
2023 3.2 1.6 2 0 0
2022 6.2 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · NC · Kill Devil Hills

3,374 Middle schools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 20 employers in Kill Devil Hills, 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 Northeast 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Richmond Community Schools-Dennis Intermediate 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR MAMIE P WHITESIDES ELEMENTARY 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR FOSSTON HIGH SCHOOL 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE C.T. Wilson Construction Company, Inc. 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate Office 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kinetic Systems Inc. Durham Office-Shop NC 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cross Technologies Inc Whitsett 89 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3414 - Outer Banks 146 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3216 LOWE S OF KILL DEVIL HILLS NC 130 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2807-3216 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR FIRST FLIGHT HIGH 126 FTE
NAT-TCR Tucson Sector 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 2505-Marriott Teaneck 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Marine Vacuum Service 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Northeast 6.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Automated Packaging Systems - Garfield 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Metro Companies INC dba Metro Xpress 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northern Montana Health Care Clinics 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Morton Electric Inc 89 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.