Colleges, community · North Carolina

Gaston College

Dallas, NC · ~760 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gaston College runs at 129% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Colleges, community workplace, earning a grade D.

Gaston College: 1.8 TCR = 129% of Colleges, community BLS 1.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gaston College safety composite

Gaston College scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 1.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 0.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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%).

Gaston College held a steady TCR band

Gaston College's TCR held near 0.2 from 1.9 in 2016 to 1.7 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2016 at 1.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.9 · 2018=1.9 · 2021=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611210 · Dallas, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 1.8 · 129% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO Columbia State Commu…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~760 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Columbia State Community College (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gaston College in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gaston College averages 1.8 TCR (129% of the Colleges, community BLS benchmark).

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

Gaston College TCR series: 2016=1.9 · 2018=1.9 · 2021=1.7 · BLS 1.4

Where Gaston College falls in its industry

127 Colleges, community establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 5 Colleges, community employers in North Carolina.

Gaston College (760 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 400 employees and a TCR of 1.4 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Gaston College
Gaston College (760 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 400 employees and a TCR of 1.4

Gaston College has more employees than the Colleges, community median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.4. 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
2021 1.7 0.7 7 0 0
2018 1.9 1.4 9 0 0
2016 1.9 0.6 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611210 · NC · Dallas

127 Colleges, community employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 22 employers in Dallas, 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 Columbia State Community College 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northwestern Michigan College - 28999 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Minnesota State College Southeast Red Wing Campus 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elkhorn Campus 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE University of North Carolina School of the Arts 760 FTE
STATE-SIZE BestCo LLC 761 FTE
STATE-SIZE GKN AUTOMOTIVE COMPONENTS 759 FTE
STATE-SIZE County of Moore Local Government 759 FTE
CITY-NEAR Store 146 168 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dixon Quick Coupling 136 FTE
CITY-NEAR Innovative Glass of America, Inc. 132 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 7004 126 FTE
NAT-TCR Brunner Island 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 90007150 Viaduct 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Eastland Feed and Grain ,Inc 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Baro Companies 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Orlando (MCO) 760 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harbor Freight Tools Corporate Calabasas 760 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Margaret's Health 760 FTE
NAT-SIZE MD0288CB2 760 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: 2021, 2018, 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.