Water distribution (except irrigation) · North Carolina

Town of Forest City - Public Utilities

Forest City, NC · ~27 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Town of Forest City - Public Utilities runs at 403% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Water distribution (except irrigation) workplace, earning a grade F.

Town of Forest City - Public Utilities: 4.8 TCR = 403% of Water distribution (except irrigation) BLS 1.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Town of Forest City - Public Utilities safety composite

Town of Forest City - Public Utilities scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 44%), 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).

C

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

Town of Forest City - Public Utilities: 3.6 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 59.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Town of Forest City - Public Utilities's TCR rose 0.7 from 3.6 in 2019 to 4.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 59.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221310 · Forest City, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.8 · 403% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #17/33
  • PHOTO Sacramento Suburban …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sacramento Suburban Water District Corp Yard (0.0 TCR gap)

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Town of Forest City - Public Utilities in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Town of Forest City - Public Utilities averages 4.8 TCR (403% of the Water distribution (except irrigation) BLS benchmark).

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

Town of Forest City - Public Utilities TCR series: 2019=3.6 · 2021=6.6 · 2023=59.7 · 2024=4.3 · BLS 1.2

Where Town of Forest City - Public Utilities falls in its industry

727 Water distribution (except irr establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 33 Water distribution (except irr employers in North Carolina.

Town of Forest City - Public Utilities (27 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Town of Forest City - Public Utilities
Town of Forest City - Public Utilities (27 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Town of Forest City - Public Utilities has fewer employees than the Water distribution (except irrigation) median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 4.3 0.0 1 0 0
2023 59.7 29.9 2 0 0
2021 6.6 3.3 2 0 0
2019 3.6 0.0 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · NC · Forest City

727 Water distribution (except irrigation) 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 Sacramento Suburban Water District Corp Yard 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR EPCOR Clovis Water, EPCOR Water New Mexico Inc. 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR County of Harnett-Public Utilities 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Department of Utilities 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bissette Farms, Inc 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hyde County Pullet Farm 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hyde County Pullet 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Price Logging Inc 27 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 300000170856360 - MO-Kansas City-Intermodal Office 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Edsal Manufacturing 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Manufacturing - 01 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Carter Lumber 260 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2nd Home Totowa LLC 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Glik Holdings LLC 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lee Building Company 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oak Creek WI 27 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, 2021, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.