Water treatment and distribution · North Carolina

Town of Forest City - Public Works

Forest City, NC · ~31 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Town of Forest City - Public Works runs at 337% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Water treatment and distribution workplace, earning a grade F.

Town of Forest City - Public Works: 4.0 TCR = 337% of Water treatment and distribution BLS 1.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Town of Forest City - Public Works safety composite

Town of Forest City - Public Works scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.1

2021→2024

Town of Forest City - Public Works injury rate improved

Town of Forest City - Public Works's TCR fell 6.1 from 6.1 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=6.1 · 2023=6.1 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 4.0 · 337% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #14/33
  • PHOTO Amador Water
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Amador Water (0.0 TCR gap)

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Town of Forest City - Public Works 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 Works averages 4.0 TCR (337% of the Water treatment and distribution BLS benchmark).

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

Town of Forest City - Public Works TCR series: 2021=6.1 · 2023=6.1 · 2024=0 · BLS 1.2

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

727 Water treatment and distributi establishments

Safer than 52% 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 #14 safest of 33 Water treatment and distributi employers in North Carolina.

Town of Forest City - Public Works (31 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 Works
Town of Forest City - Public Works (31 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Town of Forest City - Public Works has fewer employees than the Water treatment and distribution median and a lower 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 6.1 0.0 1 1 0
2021 6.1 3.0 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · NC · Forest City

727 Water treatment and distribution 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 Amador Water 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Utilities - Water Distribution 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR All 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Water and Sewer 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Todd Glover Farms Inc 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sunny Creek Farm Inc. 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rowan 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE CPI USA NC LLC - Roxboro 31 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 Fountain View Village 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Covington Court Health and Rehabilitation Center 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Simmons Animal Nutrition-Milan 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CA-Ventura S/C 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Universal Urethane, Inc. 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Montebello Plastics, LLC 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tri-State Asphalt LLC 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Brunswick 31 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. 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.