Sanitation engineering agencies, government · North Carolina

Public Works- Sanitation/Streets/W & S

Washington, NC · ~42 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.9
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Public Works- Sanitation/Streets/W & S runs at 279% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sanitation engineering agencies, government workplace, earning a grade F.

Public Works- Sanitation/Streets/W & S: 8.9 TCR = 279% of Sanitation engineering agencies, government BLS 3.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Public Works- Sanitation/Streets/W & S safety composite

Public Works- Sanitation/Streets/W & S scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 36% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

−9.0

2019→2024

Public Works- Sanitation/Streets/W & S injury rate improved

Public Works- Sanitation/Streets/W & S's TCR fell 9.0 from 14.3 in 2019 to 5.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 14.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=14.3 · 2020=14.0 · 2021=7.6 · 2022=7.4 · 2023=5.1 · 2024=5.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 924110 · Washington, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.9 · 279% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #5/8
  • PHOTO Water Department
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Water Department (0.1 TCR gap)

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Public Works- Sanitation/Streets/W & S in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Public Works- Sanitation/Streets/W & S averages 8.9 TCR (279% of the Sanitation engineering agencies, government BLS benchmark).

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

Public Works- Sanitation/Streets/W & S TCR series: 2019=14.3 · 2020=14 · 2021=7.6 · 2022=7.4 · 2023=5.1 · 2024=5.3 · BLS 3.2

Where Public Works- Sanitation/Streets/W & S falls in its industry

131 Sanitation engineering agencie establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 8 Sanitation engineering agencie employers in North Carolina.

Public Works- Sanitation/Streets/W & S (42 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 126 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Public Works- Sanitation/Streets/W & S
Public Works- Sanitation/Streets/W & S (42 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 126 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Public Works- Sanitation/Streets/W & S has fewer employees than the Sanitation engineering agencies, governm median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 5.3 2.6 2 0 0
2023 5.1 5.1 2 0 0
2022 7.4 7.4 3 0 0
2021 7.6 5.1 3 0 1
2020 14.0 8.4 5 0 0
2019 14.3 11.4 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

924110 · NC · Washington

131 Sanitation engineering agencies, government employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 55 employers in Washington, 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 Water Department 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR City Of Meriden Water Department 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Public Works - Operations 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Public Works Department 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mount Vernon Hatchery 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE CPI USA NC LLC - Southport 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE ALBEMARLE-WMSTN 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Franklin Operations Center 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR ECU Health Beaufort Hospital 758 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vidant Beaufort Hospital 576 FTE
CITY-NEAR Beaufort County Community College 383 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1354 317 FTE
NAT-TCR At Home Stores #207 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR ORD-M 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR The Village at Victory Lakes 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR MNM015 8.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Scott's Diversified Construction, Inc. 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE LifeLine - Omak 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE York, PA - Cross Farm Lane 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Barro's Pizza, Dove Valley 42 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, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.