General public administration · North Carolina

Gaston County Government

Gastonia, NC · ~1,711 workers · 7 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

Gaston County Government runs at 129% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General public administration workplace, earning a grade D.

Gaston County Government: 4.1 TCR = 129% of General public administration BLS 3.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gaston County Government safety composite

Gaston County Government scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

Gaston County Government: 3.3 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 5.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.8× in 2022

Gaston County Government's TCR rose 1.6 from 3.3 in 2016 to 5.0 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921190 · Gastonia, NC ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 129% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #53/105
  • PHOTO Washington County Pa…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 393 inj
  • SIZE ~1,711 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Washington County Parks (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gaston County Government in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gaston County Government averages 4.1 TCR (129% of the General public administration BLS benchmark).

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

Gaston County Government TCR series: 2016=3.3 · 2017=3.7 · 2018=4.5 · 2019=4.1 · 2020=4.3 · 2021=4 · 2022=5 · BLS 3.2

Where Gaston County Government falls in its industry

1,496 General public administration establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #53 safest of 105 General public administration employers in North Carolina.

Gaston County Government (1,711 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 05001,0001,5002,000 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Gaston County Government
Gaston County Government (1,711 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Gaston County Government has more employees than the General public administration median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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
2022 5.0 3.3 73 17 0
2021 4.0 3.0 51 19 0
2020 4.3 3.2 53 24 0
2019 4.1 2.7 58 6 0
2018 4.5 3.0 58 7 0
2017 3.7 3.4 52 0 0
2016 3.3 3.1 48 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921190 · NC · Gastonia

1,496 General public administration employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 182 employers in Gastonia, 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 Washington County Parks 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Town & Village of Ludlow 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Spring Valley 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR NN Engineering Traffic Operations 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE 0007-Atrium Health Pineville 1,725 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0007-CHS Pineville 1,725 FTE
STATE-SIZE OrthoCarolina 1,693 FTE
STATE-SIZE NCRAL - RALEIGH 1,730 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston Memorial Hospital, Incorporated d/b/a CaroMont Regional Medical Center 3,156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wix Allen Plant 931 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gastonia Components and Logistics - Tulip 912 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stabilus, Inc. 497 FTE
NAT-TCR Summit Polymers - Plant Eight 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ardmore PA 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 680 - Roseville West 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 609 - Hooksett 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Venture Forthe 1,711 FTE
NAT-SIZE Herman Miller Main Site 1,711 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon Transportation Services : BWI5 1,711 FTE
NAT-SIZE Frederick Ferris Thompson Hospital 1,710 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.