Dumps, nonhazardous solid waste (e.g., trash) · North Carolina

Public Services - Town of Black Mountain

Black Mountain, NC · ~26 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.8
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities

The verdict

Public Services - Town of Black Mountain runs at 417% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Dumps, nonhazardous solid waste (e.g., trash) workplace, earning a grade F.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.8
avg TCR · per 100 workers
2.6
industry benchmark (BLS)
10
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Public Services - Town of Black Mountain's OSHA Total Case Rate of 10.8 to the Dumps, nonhazardous solid waste (e.g., trash) BLS benchmark of 2.6 (417% of benchmark) across 6 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.

Injury rate over time

Public Services - Town of Black Mountain's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 2.6 industry benchmark.

-50510152025 201820192020202120222023 4.22.6 Industry benchmarkPublic Services - Town of Black Mountain TCR
Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 562212.

Where Public Services - Town of Black Mountain falls in its industry

339 Dumps, nonhazardous solid wast establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 16 Dumps, nonhazardous solid wast employers in North Carolina.

Trend analysis for Public Services - Town of Black Mountain

Between 2018 and 2023, Public Services - Town of Black Mountain's Total Case Rate improved from 21.9 to 4.2 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 81% decrease across 5 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2022, at a TCR of 0.0, while 2018 saw the highest rate, at 21.9, a spread of 21.9 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 6 reporting years, Public Services - Town of Black Mountain recorded 10 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 6-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 10 injuries, 1 illnesses shown on this page for Public Services - Town of Black Mountain are sourced from its own 6 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 562212 - Dumps, nonhazardous solid waste (e.g., trash).

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2023)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

0 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 47,410 hours worked = 0.00 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Public Services - Town of Black Mountain (this establishment) 10.84 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 6-year avg
Sanitary landfills industry avg 2.60 BLS IIF, NAICS 562212
North Carolina state avg (all industries) 3.89 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Public Services - Town of Black Mountain to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2023 4.2 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 19.2 9.6 4 0 0
2020 12.3 12.3 2 0 0
2019 7.4 7.4 1 0 0
2018 21.9 7.3 2 1 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Public Services - Town of Black Mountain's reported OSHA injury record versus its Dumps, nonhazardous solid waste (e.g., trash) peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.

  • At 417% of the Dumps, nonhazardous solid waste (e.g., trash) benchmark, Public Services - Town of Black Mountain reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Dumps, nonhazardous solid waste (e.g., trash) sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Public Services - Town of Black Mountain's safety grade?
Public Services - Town of Black Mountain has a safety grade of F (Failing Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 10.8 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 2.6 for Dumps, nonhazardous solid waste (e.g., trash).
How many injuries has Public Services - Town of Black Mountain reported?
Public Services - Town of Black Mountain has reported 10 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 6 years of OSHA data (2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.