Detention centers · North Carolina

Wake County Detention Center

Raleigh, NC · ~411 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Wake County Detention Center runs at 207% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Detention centers workplace, earning a grade F.

Wake County Detention Center: 6.6 TCR = 207% of Detention centers BLS 3.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wake County Detention Center safety composite

Wake County Detention Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

Wake County Detention Center: 5.6 → 6.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 8.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.56× in 2024

Wake County Detention Center's TCR rose 0.9 from 5.6 in 2016 to 6.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922140 · Raleigh, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.6 · 207% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #4/12
  • PHOTO IDOC - 6th District …
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 241 inj
  • SIZE ~411 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: IDOC - 6th District (Stratton Center) (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · North Carolina employers → · Look up another →

Wake County Detention Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wake County Detention Center averages 6.6 TCR (207% of the Detention centers BLS benchmark).

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

Wake County Detention Center TCR series: 2016=5.6 · 2017=3.6 · 2018=5.3 · 2019=8.6 · 2020=8.4 · 2021=7.1 · 2022=8.8 · 2023=5.5 · 2024=6.5 · BLS 3.2

Where Wake County Detention Center falls in its industry

482 Detention centers establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 12 Detention centers employers in North Carolina.

Wake County Detention Center (411 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 employees and a TCR of 5.8 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 05001,0001,500 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Wake County Detention Center
Wake County Detention Center (411 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 employees and a TCR of 5.8

Wake County Detention Center has more employees than the Detention centers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.8. 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
2024 6.5 3.7 20 3 0
2023 5.5 2.5 18 2 0
2022 8.8 4.8 33 0 0
2021 7.1 4.9 29 0 0
2020 8.4 5.5 37 0 0
2019 8.6 6.2 39 0 0
2018 5.3 3.6 25 0 0
2017 3.6 1.8 16 0 0
2016 5.6 3.8 24 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922140 · NC · Raleigh

482 Detention centers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 973 employers in Raleigh, 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 IDOC - 6th District (Stratton Center) 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maloney CTSD 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Howard County Sheriff's Department 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR CITRUS COUNTY 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE US National Whitewater Center 411 FTE
STATE-SIZE Villari Bros. Foods 412 FTE
STATE-SIZE Albemarle Corporation- Charlotte 412 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corning Life Sciences - Durham 410 FTE
CITY-NEAR Headway Workforce Solutions 13,936 FTE
CITY-NEAR NC State University 11,491 FTE
CITY-NEAR UNC Rex Healthcare 7,282 FTE
CITY-NEAR SECU 6,283 FTE
NAT-TCR Retail Operations Center 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Yard 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant 1 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR TES, Inc. Smokehouse BBQ and Brews 110 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pioneer Plastics - Auburn 411 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dart Container Engineering 411 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elgin 411 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main Street Station 411 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, 2020, 2019, 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.