Vocational rehabilitation job training facilities (except schools) · North Carolina
HAYWOOD VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES - Scates
Waynesville, NC · ~90 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- C
- Average Safety Record
- 3.9
- Avg TCR
- 3.8
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
HAYWOOD VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES - Scates runs at 102% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Vocational rehabilitation job training facilities (except schools) workplace, earning a grade C.
- C
- Average Safety Record
- 3.9
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 3.8
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 6
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares HAYWOOD VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES - Scates's OSHA Total Case Rate of 3.9 to the Vocational rehabilitation job training facilities (except schools) BLS benchmark of 3.8 (102% of benchmark) across 2 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
HAYWOOD VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES - Scates's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.8 industry benchmark.
Where HAYWOOD VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES - Scates falls in its industry
1,720 Vocational rehabilitation job establishmentsSafer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.
Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 48 Vocational rehabilitation job employers in North Carolina.
Trend analysis for HAYWOOD VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES - Scates
Between 2019 and 2021, HAYWOOD VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES - Scates's Total Case Rate improved from 5.4 to 2.3 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 57% decrease across 2 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2021, at a TCR of 2.3, while 2019 saw the highest rate, at 5.4, a spread of 3.1 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 2 reporting years, HAYWOOD VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES - Scates recorded 6 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 2-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 6 injuries shown on this page for HAYWOOD VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES - Scates are sourced from its own 2 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 624310 - Vocational rehabilitation job training facilities (except schools).
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2021)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
2 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 170,941 hours worked = 2.34 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| HAYWOOD VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES - Scates (this establishment) | 3.88 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 2-year avg |
| Workshops for persons with disabilities industry avg | 3.80 | BLS IIF, NAICS 624310 |
| North Carolina state avg (all industries) | 3.89 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by HAYWOOD VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES - Scates to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2021: 2 reportable incidents · 2 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2019: 4 reportable incidents · 4 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2.3 | 2.3 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 5.4 | 5.4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on HAYWOOD VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES - Scates's reported OSHA injury record versus its Vocational rehabilitation job training facilities (except schools) peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 102% of the Vocational rehabilitation job training facilities (except schools) benchmark, HAYWOOD VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES - Scates reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Vocational rehabilitation job training facilities (except schools) sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.