Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) · North Carolina

Orange County - Sheriff's Office

Name: Orange County - Sheriff's Office Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Hillsborough, NC · ~206 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.6
Avg TCR: 3.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Orange County - Sheriff's Office runs at 80% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) workplace, earning a grade B.

Orange County - Sheriff's Office: 2.6 TCR = 80% of Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Orange County - Sheriff's Office safety composite

Orange County - Sheriff's Office scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 2.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers
DART rate: B 1.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−1.5

2023→2024

Orange County - Sheriff's Office injury rate improved

Orange County - Sheriff's Office's TCR fell 1.5 from 3.3 in 2023 to 1.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=3.3 · 2024=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Hillsborough, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 80% of ind

DART 1.4 DART
RANK #3/49
PHOTO MOA Police Departmen…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 11 inj
SIZE ~206 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MOA Police Department Elmore Location (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.7
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2.6
MOA Police Dep

2.6
Office of Fiel

2.6
CRIME LAB 1435

2.5

What this shows Orange County - Sheriff's Office averages 2.6 TCR (80% of the Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) BLS benchmark).

Orange County - Sheriff's Office TCR series: 2023=3.3 · 2024=1.8 · BLS 3.2

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

716 Sheriffs' offices (except cour establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

Grade B

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 49 Sheriffs' offices (except cour employers in North Carolina.

Orange County - Sheriff's Office (206 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Orange County - Sheriff's Office has more employees than the Sheriffs' offices (except court function median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. 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	1.8	1.4	4	0	0
2023	3.3	1.9	7	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · NC · Hillsborough

716 Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	MOA Police Department Elmore Location	ANCHORAGE, AK	2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Office of Field Operations - New York	NEW YORK, NY	2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	CRIME LAB 1435 S0 4800 W	SALT LAKE CITY, UT	2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Redwood County Law Enforcement Center	REDWOOD FALLS, MN	2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Sanford 2	SANFORD	206 FTE
STATE-SIZE	2520 Claremont Folding	CLAREMONT	206 FTE
STATE-SIZE	33 Hickory Tape	HICKORY	206 FTE
STATE-SIZE	NCFI Polyurethanes - A Division of Barnhardt Manufacturing	MT. AIRY	206 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Sports Endeavors	Hillsborough	371 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 1191	Hillsborough	348 FTE
CITY-NEAR	1191	Hillsborough	308 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Emergency Services	Hillsborough	232 FTE
NAT-TCR	749 Dekalb	Dekalb, IL	2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	TJX Digital Memphis Merchants, LLC	Memphis, TN	2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Rockford Il Sales Center	Rockford, IL	2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Bluford Jackson & Son, Inc.	Milford, OH	2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Aspirus Iron River Hospital	Iron River, MI	206 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Ma206 - Franklin	Franklin, MA	206 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Kyloe - Wwwl Outerloop Building	Louisville, KY	206 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Kyvil - Outerloop Building 4	Louisville, KY	206 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.