Electric Power Distribution · North Carolina

Kinston Work Center

Kinston, NC · ~17 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kinston Work Center runs at 203% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Electric Power Distribution workplace, earning a grade F.

Kinston Work Center: 2.4 TCR = 203% of Electric Power Distribution BLS 1.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kinston Work Center safety composite

Kinston Work Center scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

Kinston Work Center: 0.0 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Kinston Work Center's TCR rose 4.9 from 0.0 in 2022 to 4.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221122 · Kinston, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 2.4 · 203% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #68/107
  • PHOTO Main
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Main (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kinston Work Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kinston Work Center averages 2.4 TCR (203% of the Electric Power Distribution BLS benchmark).

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

Kinston Work Center TCR series: 2022=0 · 2024=4.9 · BLS 1.2

Where Kinston Work Center falls in its industry

2,958 Electric Power Distribution establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #68 safest of 107 Electric Power Distribution employers in North Carolina.

Kinston Work Center (17 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kinston Work Center
Kinston Work Center (17 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Kinston Work Center has fewer employees than the Electric Power Distribution median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 4.9 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221122 · NC · Kinston

2,958 Electric Power Distribution employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 86 employers in Kinston, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Main 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arrington Operation 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 385-NiSource-LaPorte IN-Operating HQ 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stephenville 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Black Gold Farms - NCE 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Roanoke Tar Cotton, Inc. 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE District Office 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE ATLS Cree 17 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sanderson Farms Kinston Processing 1,564 FTE
CITY-NEAR Caswell Developmental Center 1,256 FTE
CITY-NEAR UNC Lenoir Health Care 843 FTE
CITY-NEAR UNC Health Lenoir 744 FTE
NAT-TCR Little Miami 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Stoller Houston Production Plant 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hartford 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Marc Glassman Inc 74WO 2.4 TCR

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. 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.