Animal grooming services · North Carolina

The Dog Play Spot

Wilmington, NC · ~44 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Dog Play Spot runs at 214% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Animal grooming services workplace, earning a grade F.

The Dog Play Spot: 4.5 TCR = 214% of Animal grooming services BLS 2.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Dog Play Spot safety composite

The Dog Play Spot scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 4.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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 Dog Play Spot: 0.0 → 9.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 9.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2022

The Dog Play Spot's TCR rose 9.0 from 0.0 in 2021 to 9.0 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 812910 · Wilmington, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.5 · 214% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #1/5
  • PHOTO Schultz Campus
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Schultz Campus (0.1 TCR gap)

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The Dog Play Spot in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Dog Play Spot averages 4.5 TCR (214% of the Animal grooming services BLS benchmark).

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

The Dog Play Spot TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=9 · BLS 2.1

Where The Dog Play Spot falls in its industry

65 Animal grooming services establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 15.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 5 Animal grooming services employers in North Carolina.

The Dog Play Spot (44 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 15.8 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 0200400600 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate The Dog Play Spot
The Dog Play Spot (44 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 15.8

The Dog Play Spot has fewer employees than the Animal grooming services median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 15.8. 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
2022 9.0 3.0 3 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

812910 · NC · Wilmington

65 Animal grooming services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 360 employers in Wilmington, 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 Schultz Campus 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marin Humane 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR South Central Region 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Dog Play Spot - Greenville 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sleepy Creek Farms 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE ALBEMARLE WMSTN 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Morganton 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aqua Services, Inc. - Cary 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medical Center 6,890 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Hanover Regional Medical Center 4,768 FTE
CITY-NEAR GE Hitachi Nuclear Americas 1,975 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Hanover County Government 1,974 FTE
NAT-TCR HG380 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Western Jet Maintenance (dba JetWorx) 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ashland Mat 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR PVC of Orange City 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE HG226 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE HG155 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Geo T Schmidt 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sullivan's Stockton Store 44 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: 2022, 2021. 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.