Ambulatory surgical centers and clinics, freestanding · North Carolina

The Eye Surgery Center of the Carolinas

Southern Pines, NC · ~48 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
26.9
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Eye Surgery Center of the Carolinas runs at 708% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ambulatory surgical centers and clinics, freestanding workplace, earning a grade F.

The Eye Surgery Center of the Carolinas: 26.9 TCR = 708% of Ambulatory surgical centers and clinics, freestanding BLS 3.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Eye Surgery Center of the Carolinas safety composite

The Eye Surgery Center of the Carolinas scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

D

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 26.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 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 Eye Surgery Center of the Carolinas: 2.8 → 44.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 44.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

The Eye Surgery Center of the Carolinas's TCR rose 41.9 from 2.8 in 2016 to 44.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621493 · Southern Pines, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 26.9 · 708% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #13/13
  • PHOTO Big Sky Surgery Center
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Sky Surgery Center (0.2 TCR gap)

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The Eye Surgery Center of the Carolinas in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Eye Surgery Center of the Carolinas averages 26.9 TCR (708% of the Ambulatory surgical centers and clinics, freestanding BLS benchmark).

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

The Eye Surgery Center of the Carolinas TCR series: 2016=2.8 · 2021=4 · 2022=40 · 2023=43.1 · 2024=44.7 · BLS 3.8

Where The Eye Surgery Center of the Carolinas falls in its industry

498 Ambulatory surgical centers an establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 13 Ambulatory surgical centers an employers in North Carolina.

The Eye Surgery Center of the Carolinas (48 employees, TCR 26.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 6.2 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate The Eye Surgery Center of the Carolinas
The Eye Surgery Center of the Carolinas (48 employees, TCR 26.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 6.2

The Eye Surgery Center of the Carolinas has more employees than the Ambulatory surgical centers and clinics, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.2. 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 44.7 0.0 11 7 0
2023 43.1 0.0 14 0 0
2022 40.0 6.2 13 0 0
2021 4.0 0.0 2 0 0
2016 2.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621493 · NC · Southern Pines

498 Ambulatory surgical centers and clinics, freestanding employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 42 employers in Southern Pines, 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 Big Sky Surgery Center 26.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hawthorn Place Outpatient Surgery Center 26.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main Street Specialty Surgery Center 26.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR AtlantiCare Surgery Center EHT 26.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jones Family Farms 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bryan Wagoner Tree Farm LLC 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Statesville Breeder Operation 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Case Farms Morganton Hatchery 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR SJP Health Center 504 FTE
CITY-NEAR Penick Village Inc. 241 FTE
CITY-NEAR Power Tools : MFG-Southern Pines, NC-USA 239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2807-0538 201 FTE
NAT-TCR Canterbury Gardens 26.9 TCR
NAT-TCR South Holland Manor Hrc 26.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Extreme Delivery Services LLC 26.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Viking Kitchen Cabinets, LLC d/b/a/ Surfaces 26.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE JLL Moderna Norwood 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mallet & Co. Inc. 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Custom Millwork & Design Group, Inc. 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cfc Recycleing 48 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, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.