Academies, college or university · North Carolina

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC · ~21,973 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill runs at 131% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Academies, college or university workplace, earning a grade D.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 1.8 TCR = 131% of Academies, college or university BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill safety composite

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 39%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 1.6 → 2.0 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 2.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.2× in 2017

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's TCR rose 0.4 from 1.6 in 2016 to 2.0 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611310 · Chapel Hill, NC ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 1.8 · 131% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #5/12
  • PHOTO A.T. Still Universit…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 497 inj
  • SIZE ~21,973 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: A.T. Still University of Health Sciences - MO Campus (0.0 TCR gap)

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill averages 1.8 TCR (131% of the Academies, college or university BLS benchmark).

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

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill TCR series: 2016=1.6 · 2017=2 · BLS 1.4

Where University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill falls in its industry

347 Academies, college or universi establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 12 Academies, college or universi employers in North Carolina.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (21,973 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 617 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 05,00010,00015,00020,00025,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (21,973 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 617 employees and a TCR of 1.5

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has more employees than the Academies, college or university median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2017 2.0 0.4 285 29 0
2016 1.6 0.2 212 36 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611310 · NC · Chapel Hill

347 Academies, college or university 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 A.T. Still University of Health Sciences - MO Campus 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Division 40 University of Rochester 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR University of Minnesota Duluth 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spelman College 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Duke University 23,871 FTE
STATE-SIZE Headway Workforce Solutions 13,936 FTE
STATE-SIZE WFBMC - Winston Campus 13,298 FTE
STATE-SIZE NC State University 11,491 FTE
CITY-NEAR UNC Health Care 11,237 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spec Personnel, LLC 644 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brookdale chapel hill 509 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carolina Meadows 487 FTE
NAT-TCR Orangegrove Rehabilitation 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Wholesome Melrose Bakery Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 1210 Dry Hollow 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Merrillville IN Store 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE UC Berkeley 22,120 FTE
NAT-SIZE University of Minnesota Twin Cities 22,522 FTE
NAT-SIZE NA-US-CA-Fremont-45500 Fremont Blvd 21,378 FTE
NAT-SIZE Warren Technical Center 22,693 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: 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.