Diners, full service · North Carolina

O-Ku Sushi Charlotte

Charlotte, NC · ~49 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.2
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

O-Ku Sushi Charlotte runs at 307% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Diners, full service workplace, earning a grade F.

O-Ku Sushi Charlotte: 9.2 TCR = 307% of Diners, full service BLS 3.0 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

O-Ku Sushi Charlotte safety composite

O-Ku Sushi Charlotte scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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

O-Ku Sushi Charlotte: 1.2 → 9.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 17.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2019

O-Ku Sushi Charlotte's TCR rose 7.8 from 1.2 in 2017 to 9.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 17.4 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722511 · Charlotte, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.2 · 307% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #15/18
  • PHOTO La Cosecha VIII, LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: La Cosecha VIII, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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O-Ku Sushi Charlotte in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows O-Ku Sushi Charlotte averages 9.2 TCR (307% of the Diners, full service BLS benchmark).

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

O-Ku Sushi Charlotte TCR series: 2017=1.2 · 2018=17.4 · 2019=9 · BLS 3.0

Where O-Ku Sushi Charlotte falls in its industry

1,091 Diners, full service establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 18 Diners, full service employers in North Carolina.

O-Ku Sushi Charlotte (49 employees, TCR 9.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate O-Ku Sushi Charlotte
O-Ku Sushi Charlotte (49 employees, TCR 9.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.9

O-Ku Sushi Charlotte has more employees than the Diners, full service median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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
2019 9.0 0.0 3 0 0
2018 17.4 0.0 6 0 0
2017 1.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722511 · NC · Charlotte

1,091 Diners, full service 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 La Cosecha VIII, LLC 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jimmy's Steer House - Arlington 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Next Door Bar Grill 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR IHOP 2048 9.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Zackly Rite Farms 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Taylor's Nursery-Raleigh 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Butterball Hatchery # 3 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Matthews Operations Center 49 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 6400-Swy 0005 0390 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 4054-Abs 0018 0590 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Black River Produce 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR King's Construction Co Inc 9.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sutter Outpatient Services, LLC (600-29) 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mid-South Transplant Foundation 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Cloud Recovery Plus 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mary Kay Inc Northeast Branch 49 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: 2019, 2018, 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.