Police and fire departments, combined · North Carolina

Public Safety

Morganton, NC · ~90 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.8
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Public Safety runs at 461% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Police and fire departments, combined workplace, earning a grade F.

Public Safety: 14.8 TCR = 461% of Police and fire departments, combined BLS 3.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Public Safety safety composite

Public Safety scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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 14.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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

−17.0

2016→2024

Public Safety injury rate improved

Public Safety's TCR fell 17.0 from 23.5 in 2016 to 6.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 26.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=23.5 · 2017=26.7 · 2018=13.9 · 2019=14.1 · 2020=14.5 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=14.1 · 2024=6.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Morganton, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.8 · 461% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #46/49
  • PHOTO Monroe Police Depart…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 100 inj
  • SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Monroe Police Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Public Safety in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Public Safety averages 14.8 TCR (461% of the Police and fire departments, combined BLS benchmark).

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

Public Safety TCR series: 2016=23.5 · 2017=26.7 · 2018=13.9 · 2019=14.1 · 2020=14.5 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=14.1 · 2024=6.5 · BLS 3.2

Where Public Safety falls in its industry

716 Police and fire departments, c establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #46 safest of 49 Police and fire departments, c employers in North Carolina.

Public Safety (90 employees, TCR 14.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 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 0200400600 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Public Safety
Public Safety (90 employees, TCR 14.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Public Safety has fewer employees than the Police and fire departments, combined median and a higher 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 6.5 2.8 5 2 0
2023 14.1 6.6 14 1 0
2022 4.8 2.4 3 1 0
2020 14.5 6.0 10 2 0
2019 14.1 5.6 15 0 0
2018 13.9 3.5 11 1 0
2017 26.7 12.3 24 0 0
2016 23.5 11.1 18 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · NC · Morganton

716 Police and fire departments, combined employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 106 employers in Morganton, 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 Monroe Police Department 14.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Council Bluffs Police Department 14.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR CPD-7th District Police Station | 1438 W. 63rd St. 14.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Jacksonville Police Department 14.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Allen Steam Station 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fayetteville Resource Center - PNG 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.R. Horton, Inc. - Raleigh 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE NJR Group Inc. 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR DEX-BLUE RIDGE HOSPITAL 3,263 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Ridge HealthCare Hospitals, Inc. 1,461 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0090-BRHC Hospitals 1,460 FTE
CITY-NEAR Broughton Hospital 1,198 FTE
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0202 Morgan Hill 14.8 TCR
NAT-TCR F/T Seafreeze Alaska 14.8 TCR
NAT-TCR PCC Community Markets - Central District 14.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Riverside Healthcare Center 14.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0762 Naples 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0691 Chicago 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Garlich Printing Company 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0651 Springfield 90 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, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.