Animal shelters · North Carolina

Orange County - Animal Services

Chapel Hill, NC · ~38 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Orange County - Animal Services runs at 358% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Animal shelters workplace, earning a grade F.

Orange County - Animal Services: 7.5 TCR = 358% of Animal shelters BLS 2.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Orange County - Animal Services safety composite

Orange County - Animal Services scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 7.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

Orange County - Animal Services: 6.1 → 8.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Orange County - Animal Services's TCR rose 2.8 from 6.1 in 2023 to 8.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 812910 · Chapel Hill, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 358% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/5
  • PHOTO Wisconsin Humane Soc…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wisconsin Humane Society - Racine Campus (0.1 TCR gap)

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Orange County - Animal Services in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Orange County - Animal Services averages 7.5 TCR (358% of the Animal shelters BLS benchmark).

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

Orange County - Animal Services TCR series: 2023=6.1 · 2024=8.9 · BLS 2.1

Where Orange County - Animal Services falls in its industry

65 Animal shelters establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 15.8.

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 Animal shelters employers in North Carolina.

Orange County - Animal Services (38 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 15.8 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 0200400600 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Orange County - Animal Services
Orange County - Animal Services (38 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 15.8

Orange County - Animal Services has fewer employees than the Animal shelters median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 15.8. 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 8.9 0.0 3 0 0
2023 6.1 3.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

812910 · NC · Chapel Hill

65 Animal shelters employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 104 employers in Chapel Hill, 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 Wisconsin Humane Society - Racine Campus 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR South East Region 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wisconsin Humane Society - Ozaukee Campus 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wisconsin Humane Society - Milwaukee Campus 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Morganton Hatchery 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harris Energy & Environmental Center 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Enerdyne Power Systems, Inc 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electric Utilities (8100) 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 21,973 FTE
CITY-NEAR UNC Health Care 11,237 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spec Personnel, LLC 644 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brookdale chapel hill 509 FTE
NAT-TCR Richfield Senior High 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Skagit Transit 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Pacer Express 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Fln17 - Doral 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Peerless Restoration 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blue Springs Service Center 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aspinwall Cooperative Co 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Custom Profiles, Inc. 38 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. 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.