Colleges, community · North Carolina

Isothermal Community College

Spindale, NC · ~339 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Isothermal Community College runs at 67% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Colleges, community workplace, earning a grade B.

Isothermal Community College: 0.9 TCR = 67% of Colleges, community BLS 1.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Isothermal Community College safety composite

Isothermal Community College scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 0.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.7

2017→2024

Isothermal Community College injury rate improved

Isothermal Community College's TCR fell 0.7 from 1.1 in 2017 to 0.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 1.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.1 · 2020=0.4 · 2022=1.9 · 2024=0.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611210 · Spindale, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 0.9 · 67% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/5
  • PHOTO Carroll Community Co…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~339 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Carroll Community College (0.0 TCR gap)

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Isothermal Community College in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Isothermal Community College averages 0.9 TCR (67% of the Colleges, community BLS benchmark).

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

Isothermal Community College TCR series: 2017=1.1 · 2020=0.4 · 2022=1.9 · 2024=0.4 · BLS 1.4

Where Isothermal Community College falls in its industry

127 Colleges, community establishments

Safer than 71% 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 #3 safest of 5 Colleges, community employers in North Carolina.

Isothermal Community College (339 employees, TCR 0.9) 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 Isothermal Community College
Isothermal Community College (339 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 400 employees and a TCR of 1.4

Isothermal Community College has fewer employees than the Colleges, community median and a lower 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
2024 0.4 0.0 1 0 0
2022 1.9 0.8 5 0 0
2020 0.4 0.4 1 0 0
2017 1.1 0.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611210 · NC · Spindale

127 Colleges, community employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 10 employers in Spindale, 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 Carroll Community College 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Minnesota State Community and Technical College- Moorhead 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Parkland College 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Minnesota State Community and Technical College- Detroit Lakes 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 1694 339 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1237 339 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4021-500076700 339 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buncombe County-Administration 339 FTE
CITY-NEAR Watts Regulator Co. (Spindale) 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cardinal Tissue C1 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rutherford Life Services - Fairground Road 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Watts - Spindale 46 FTE
NAT-TCR Spring Glass and Mirror 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR GP Reeves INC 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Jmeg, LLC - Dfw 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Spacelabs Healthcare 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dart Warehouse Corporation - Naperville 339 FTE
NAT-SIZE James D. Morrissey, Inc. 339 FTE
NAT-SIZE PacBio Menlo Park 339 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arizona Region 339 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, 2022, 2020, 2017. 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.