General services departments, government · North Carolina

Public Works Department

Asheville, NC · ~141 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.2
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Public Works Department runs at 413% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General services departments, government workplace, earning a grade F.

Public Works Department: 13.2 TCR = 413% of General services departments, government BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Public Works Department safety composite

Public Works Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Public Works Department: 10.3 → 21.4 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 21.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.2× in 2019

Public Works Department's TCR rose 11.2 from 10.3 in 2016 to 21.4 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921190 · Asheville, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 13.2 · 413% of ind

  • DART 15.9 DART
  • RANK #104/105
  • PHOTO Public Works
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 61 inj
  • SIZE ~141 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Public Works (0.0 TCR gap)

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Public Works Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Public Works Department averages 13.2 TCR (413% of the General services departments, government BLS benchmark).

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

Public Works Department TCR series: 2016=10.3 · 2017=9.9 · 2018=11.3 · 2019=21.4 · BLS 3.2

Where Public Works Department falls in its industry

1,496 General services departments, establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #104 safest of 105 General services departments, employers in North Carolina.

Public Works Department (141 employees, TCR 13.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 0200400600800 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Public Works Department
Public Works Department (141 employees, TCR 13.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Public Works Department has more employees than the General services departments, government median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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
2019 21.4 15.9 23 0 0
2018 11.3 8.9 14 0 0
2017 9.9 8.2 12 0 0
2016 10.3 6.0 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921190 · NC · Asheville

1,496 General services departments, government employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 290 employers in Asheville, 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 Public Works 13.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Summit Township 13.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Irvine 13.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 990 CITY OF ZION 13.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Clancy & Theys Construction Company - Raleigh, NC 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE General Manpower LLC 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE NCH 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE Veneer Technologies Inc. 141 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mission Hospital; MH Hospital Manager, LLC 8,097 FTE
CITY-NEAR Biltmore Workforce Management 1,894 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mission Medical Associates 1,336 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Care Partners 1,018 FTE
NAT-TCR Bernatello's Pizza, Inc. - Kaukauna Manufacturing 13.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Les Schwab Tire Center-The Dalles 13.2 TCR
NAT-TCR LifeSkills Industries-Allen County 13.2 TCR
NAT-TCR MA019 13.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE 6962-Swy 0029 2250 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6962-Swy 0029 1897 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE SMARTRAC TECHNOLOGY US Inc 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6962-Swy 0025 2697 141 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.