Highway construction · North Carolina

Public Works

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

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Public Works runs at 144% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Highway construction workplace, earning a grade D.

Public Works: 4.0 TCR = 144% of Highway construction BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Public Works safety composite

Public Works scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Public Works: 0.0 → 8.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2024

Public Works's TCR rose 8.1 from 0.0 in 2023 to 8.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Graham, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 144% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #85/120
  • PHOTO Rifenburg North Caro…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rifenburg North Carolina, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Public Works in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Public Works averages 4.0 TCR (144% of the Highway construction BLS benchmark).

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

Public Works TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=8.1 · BLS 2.8

Where Public Works falls in its industry

4,078 Highway construction establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #85 safest of 120 Highway construction employers in North Carolina.

Public Works (29 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Public Works
Public Works (29 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Public Works has fewer employees than the Highway construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 8.1 4.0 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · NC · Graham

4,078 Highway construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 29 employers in Graham, 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 Rifenburg North Carolina, LLC 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cedar Valley Corp LLC 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Holbein Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR The RJ Noble Company 4.0 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 Alamance County 761 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alamance Foods Cedar Crest 532 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buckner Heavylift Cranes, LLC. 207 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASPE-South LLC 146 FTE
NAT-TCR Timber Products - Spectrum Division 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Miami Dade 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR WILDWOOD 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0680 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Telamon Corporation - Bensalem 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Rock Springs 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE D'Agostino #550 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mercer Landmark - MPS 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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