Distribution of electric power · North Carolina

Rutherford-Polk

Forest City, NC · ~77 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rutherford-Polk runs at 652% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Distribution of electric power workplace, earning a grade F.

Rutherford-Polk: 7.8 TCR = 652% of Distribution of electric power BLS 1.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rutherford-Polk safety composite

Rutherford-Polk scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

Rutherford-Polk: 5.7 → 9.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.49× in 2024

Rutherford-Polk's TCR rose 3.3 from 5.7 in 2022 to 9.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221122 · Forest City, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 652% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #104/107
  • PHOTO Clearwater Power Com…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~77 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Clearwater Power Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Rutherford-Polk in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rutherford-Polk averages 7.8 TCR (652% of the Distribution of electric power BLS benchmark).

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

Rutherford-Polk TCR series: 2022=5.7 · 2023=8.7 · 2024=9 · BLS 1.2

Where Rutherford-Polk falls in its industry

2,958 Distribution of electric power establishments

Safer than 7% 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 #104 safest of 107 Distribution of electric power employers in North Carolina.

Rutherford-Polk (77 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Rutherford-Polk
Rutherford-Polk (77 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Rutherford-Polk has more employees than the Distribution of electric power 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 9.0 3.9 6 1 0
2023 8.7 2.9 6 0 0
2022 5.7 5.7 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221122 · NC · Forest City

2,958 Distribution of electric power employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 38 employers in Forest City, 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 Clearwater Power Company 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR LADWP 11801 SHELDON 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR MERCED SERVICE CENTER 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sheboygan Operations Center 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Triangle Warehouse 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water Resources 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Raleigh Asphalt Operations 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Enka 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR Forest City Permanent 473 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1036 415 FTE
CITY-NEAR Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems, LLC 390 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1036 379 FTE
NAT-TCR All American Alloys and Recycling Inc 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 8400-DRC-WOODSTOCK 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Morris Health Services - dba West Wind Village 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sumner 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Westgate 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Osprey Cove Golf Club 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bhm-Ground Ops 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Duchateau 77 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. 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.