Engineering structure (e.g., oil storage tank, water tower) painting · North Carolina

Town of Chapel Hill - Public Works

Chapel Hill, NC · ~109 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Town of Chapel Hill - Public Works runs at 153% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Engineering structure (e.g., oil storage tank, water tower) painting workplace, earning a grade D.

Town of Chapel Hill - Public Works: 4.3 TCR = 153% of Engineering structure (e.g., oil storage tank, water tower) painting BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Town of Chapel Hill - Public Works safety composite

Town of Chapel Hill - Public Works scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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 4.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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%).

Town of Chapel Hill - Public Works held a steady TCR band

Town of Chapel Hill - Public Works's TCR held near 0.3 from 4.1 in 2016 to 3.8 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.0 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.1 · 2017=5.0 · 2018=3.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238320 · Chapel Hill, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 153% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #10/15
  • PHOTO Elliott Paint Compan…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~109 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Elliott Paint Company Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Town of Chapel Hill - Public Works in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Town of Chapel Hill - Public Works averages 4.3 TCR (153% of the Engineering structure (e.g., oil storage tank, water tower) painting BLS benchmark).

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

Town of Chapel Hill - Public Works TCR series: 2016=4.1 · 2017=5 · 2018=3.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Town of Chapel Hill - Public Works falls in its industry

582 Engineering structure (e.g., o establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 15 Engineering structure (e.g., o employers in North Carolina.

Town of Chapel Hill - Public Works (109 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Town of Chapel Hill - Public Works
Town of Chapel Hill - Public Works (109 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Town of Chapel Hill - Public Works has more employees than the Engineering structure (e.g., oil storage median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2018 3.8 3.1 10 1 0
2017 5.0 3.0 5 0 0
2016 4.1 4.1 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238320 · NC · Chapel Hill

582 Engineering structure (e.g., oil storage tank, water tower) painting employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 104 employers in Chapel Hill, 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 Elliott Paint Company Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thomas Industrial Coatings & Thomas Equipment & Management 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Turman - Livermore 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rainbow Inc. 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Primoris T&D Services - Charlotte 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Graham 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mid Atlantic Infrastructure Systems Inc 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gaines and company Inc 109 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 21,973 FTE
CITY-NEAR UNC Health Care 11,237 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spec Personnel, LLC 644 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brookdale chapel hill 509 FTE
NAT-TCR Smithfield 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Houston Airport 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Armortech Windows and Doors Clearwater 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Tulsa Eastgate 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Manor Care Health Services - Appleton 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Letica Freightlines 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE FGG Pensacola 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Baker Interiors Furniture - Showrooms & Stores 109 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: 2018, 2017, 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.