Other Building Material Dealers · North Carolina

The Building Center - Boone

Name: The Building Center - Boone Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Banner Elk, NC · ~21 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.5
Avg TCR: 3.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

The Building Center - Boone runs at 102% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Other Building Material Dealers workplace, earning a grade C.

The Building Center - Boone: 3.5 TCR = 102% of Other Building Material Dealers BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Building Center - Boone safety composite

The Building Center - Boone scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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).

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 3.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers
DART rate: F 6.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 50% 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

The Building Center - Boone: 0.0 → 7.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

The Building Center - Boone's TCR rose 7.0 from 0.0 in 2023 to 7.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444190 · Banner Elk, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 102% of ind

DART 7.0 DART
RANK #18/53
PHOTO Industrial & Wholesa…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Industrial & Wholesale Lumber, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Industrial & W

3.5
West Michigan

3.5
Pacific Coast

3.5
IL026A

3.5

What this shows The Building Center - Boone averages 3.5 TCR (102% of the Other Building Material Dealers BLS benchmark).

The Building Center - Boone TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=7 · BLS 3.4

Where The Building Center - Boone falls in its industry

1,643 Other Building Material Dealer establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 53 Other Building Material Dealer employers in North Carolina.

The Building Center - Boone (21 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2

The Building Center - Boone has fewer employees than the Other Building Material Dealers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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	7.0	7.0	1	0	0
2023	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444190 · NC · Banner Elk

1,643 Other Building Material Dealers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 12 employers in Banner Elk, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Industrial & Wholesale Lumber, Inc.	WOOD DALE, IL	3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	West Michigan Lumber	BYRON CENTER, MI	3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Pacific Coast Colorado Spring	COLORADO SPRINGS, CO	3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	IL026A	ELK GROVE VILLAGE, IL	3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Timothy Yarbrough	PROSPECT HILL	21 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Liberty NC Breeders	LIBERTY	21 FTE
STATE-SIZE	NCJA1-SEL-JASON 1'	LAGRANGE	21 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Sunburst Trout Farms	WAYNESVILLE	21 FTE
CITY-NEAR	1834 LOWE S OF BANNER ELK NC	Banner Elk	118 FTE
CITY-NEAR	2807-1834	Banner Elk	117 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Consolidated Resources	Banner Elk	108 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Lowes Foods #158	Banner Elk	95 FTE
NAT-TCR	Hiab USA	Perrysburg, OH	3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Dana Distributors, Inc.	Goshen, NY	3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Custom Electronics Inc	Oneonta, NY	3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Burke Corporation	Nevada, IA	3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	The Building Center Inc - Holly Hill	Holly Hill, SC	21 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Captain Steamer Carpet Cleaner	Cape Coral, FL	21 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Custom Electric	Tavernier, FL	21 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Southeastern Dock Supply, LLC	Gainesville, GA	21 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.

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