Colleges, universities, and professional schools · North Carolina

Warren Wilson College

Swannanoa, NC · ~949 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Warren Wilson College runs at 359% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Colleges, universities, and professional schools workplace, earning a grade F.

Warren Wilson College: 5.0 TCR = 359% of Colleges, universities, and professional schools BLS 1.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Warren Wilson College safety composite

Warren Wilson College scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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).

F

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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%).

Warren Wilson College held a steady TCR band

Warren Wilson College's TCR held near 0.1 from 4.9 in 2018 to 5.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=4.9 · 2019=3.8 · 2020=4.6 · 2021=8.3 · 2022=4.6 · 2023=4.0 · 2024=5.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611310 · Swannanoa, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 5.0 · 359% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #11/12
  • PHOTO Emory Johns Creek Ho…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 98 inj
  • SIZE ~949 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Emory Johns Creek Hospital (0.0 TCR gap)

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Warren Wilson College in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Warren Wilson College averages 5.0 TCR (359% of the Colleges, universities, and professional schools BLS benchmark).

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

Warren Wilson College TCR series: 2018=4.9 · 2019=3.8 · 2020=4.6 · 2021=8.3 · 2022=4.6 · 2023=4 · 2024=5 · BLS 1.4

Where Warren Wilson College falls in its industry

347 Colleges, universities, and pr establishments

Safer than 9% 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 #11 safest of 12 Colleges, universities, and pr employers in North Carolina.

Warren Wilson College (949 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Warren Wilson College
Warren Wilson College (949 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 617 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Warren Wilson College has more employees than the Colleges, universities, and professional 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
2024 5.0 3.5 11 3 0
2023 4.0 2.0 12 0 0
2022 4.6 4.3 13 0 0
2021 8.3 7.5 20 0 0
2020 4.6 4.2 12 0 0
2019 3.8 3.5 12 0 0
2018 4.9 3.8 18 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611310 · NC · Swannanoa

347 Colleges, universities, and professional schools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 11 employers in Swannanoa, 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 Emory Johns Creek Hospital 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Antioch College 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wyoming State Veterinary Lab 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Agnes Scott College 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - CLT3 951 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - CLT5 946 FTE
STATE-SIZE Research 946 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vidant Medical Group 941 FTE
CITY-NEAR National Wiper Alliance a business of Ecolab 160 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gentry service Group 106 FTE
CITY-NEAR SODEXO AT WARREN WILSON COLL-DINING HALL 83 FTE
CITY-NEAR SODEXO AT WARREN WILSON COLLEGE 67 FTE
NAT-TCR NOVO Health Services - Atlanta 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Donald DC 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Recreation Association of Corcoran 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ampco Distribution Services, LLC 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Maricopa County - County Attorney (190) 949 FTE
NAT-SIZE Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities H420 949 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tiffin Motorhomes Inc 949 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - ORD2 949 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.