Basketball teams, professional or semiprofessional · North Carolina

Hornets Basketball, LLC

Charlotte, NC · ~788 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.0
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hornets Basketball, LLC runs at 453% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Basketball teams, professional or semiprofessional workplace, earning a grade F.

Hornets Basketball, LLC: 14.0 TCR = 453% of Basketball teams, professional or semiprofessional BLS 3.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hornets Basketball, LLC safety composite

Hornets Basketball, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

Hornets Basketball, LLC: 10.6 → 12.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 18.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.6× in 2024

Hornets Basketball, LLC's TCR rose 2.2 from 10.6 in 2022 to 12.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 18.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 711211 · Charlotte, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 14.0 · 453% of ind

  • DART 8.4 DART
  • RANK #10/13
  • PHOTO Rocket City Trash Pa…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 150 inj
  • SIZE ~788 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rocket City Trash Pandas (0.3 TCR gap)

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Hornets Basketball, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hornets Basketball, LLC averages 14.0 TCR (453% of the Basketball teams, professional or semiprofessional BLS benchmark).

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

Hornets Basketball, LLC TCR series: 2022=10.6 · 2023=18.6 · 2024=12.8 · BLS 3.1

Where Hornets Basketball, LLC falls in its industry

157 Basketball teams, professional establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 13 Basketball teams, professional employers in North Carolina.

Hornets Basketball, LLC (788 employees, TCR 14.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 206 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Hornets Basketball, LLC
Hornets Basketball, LLC (788 employees, TCR 14.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 206 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Hornets Basketball, LLC has more employees than the Basketball teams, professional or semipr median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 12.8 8.4 52 0 0
2023 18.6 11.3 66 0 0
2022 10.6 5.7 32 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

711211 · NC · Charlotte

157 Basketball teams, professional or semiprofessional employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 2,058 employers in Charlotte, 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 Rocket City Trash Pandas 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2039-CHARLOTTE KNIGHTS 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR BALBOA MANAGEMENT GROUP, LLC 13.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2039-ROME 12.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE AdventHealth Hendersonville 788 FTE
STATE-SIZE NC Forest Service 787 FTE
STATE-SIZE Burnsville 789 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bayer Crop Science RTP 787 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1101-Carolinas Medical Center (1101) 8,444 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0001-Carolinas Medical Center 8,032 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4795-AA-CLT-CHARLOTTE-CLT-TRML 7,295 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center 4,973 FTE
NAT-TCR YMCO Petaluma 14.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Don Oppliger Companies 14.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Neosho Trompler Inc 14.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Weatherly Casting & Machine Co., LLC 14.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lanor - New Orleans 788 FTE
NAT-SIZE Broadridge Customer Communications 788 FTE
NAT-SIZE San Diego Trolley, Inc. 788 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eaton Center Oh 788 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.