Jails (except private operation of) · North Carolina

Orange County - Sheriff's Office - Detention Center

Hillsborough, NC · ~29 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.3
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Orange County - Sheriff's Office - Detention Center runs at 511% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Jails (except private operation of) workplace, earning a grade F.

Orange County - Sheriff's Office - Detention Center: 16.3 TCR = 511% of Jails (except private operation of) BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Orange County - Sheriff's Office - Detention Center safety composite

Orange County - Sheriff's Office - Detention Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 16.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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 - Sheriff's Office - Detention Center: 10.2 → 22.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 22.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.98× in 2024

Orange County - Sheriff's Office - Detention Center's TCR rose 12.3 from 10.2 in 2023 to 22.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922140 · Hillsborough, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 16.3 · 511% of ind

  • DART 16.1 DART
  • RANK #12/12
  • PHOTO Campbell County Dete…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Campbell County Detention Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Orange County - Sheriff's Office - Detention Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Orange County - Sheriff's Office - Detention Center averages 16.3 TCR (511% of the Jails (except private operation of) BLS benchmark).

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

Orange County - Sheriff's Office - Detention Center TCR series: 2023=10.2 · 2024=22.5 · BLS 3.2

Where Orange County - Sheriff's Office - Detention Center falls in its industry

482 Jails (except private operatio establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 12 Jails (except private operatio employers in North Carolina.

Orange County - Sheriff's Office - Detention Center (29 employees, TCR 16.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 employees and a TCR of 5.8 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 05001,0001,500 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Orange County - Sheriff's Office - Detention Center
Orange County - Sheriff's Office - Detention Center (29 employees, TCR 16.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 employees and a TCR of 5.8

Orange County - Sheriff's Office - Detention Center has fewer employees than the Jails (except private operation of) median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.8. 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 22.5 16.1 7 0 0
2023 10.2 10.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922140 · NC · Hillsborough

482 Jails (except private operation of) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 45 employers in Hillsborough, 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 Campbell County Detention Center 16.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS 16.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Morris County Sheriff's Bureau of Corrections 16.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR California Correctional Institution 16.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Black Gold Farms - NCC 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buy Sod - Sandhill 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cowans Ford 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Craven County Wood Energy 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sports Endeavors 371 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1191 348 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1191 308 FTE
CITY-NEAR Emergency Services 232 FTE
NAT-TCR Elroy Health Services 16.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Whitley Evergreen, Inc. 16.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ultravation, Inc. - Brandon 16.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Transportation 16.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Holmes Lumber 167 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jinks Concrete Contractors INC 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rand Machine Works 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Appalachian Pallet & Precut 29 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.