Water control and quality program administration · North Carolina

Water Department

Asheville, NC · ~151 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.5
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Water Department runs at 328% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Water control and quality program administration workplace, earning a grade F.

Water Department: 10.5 TCR = 328% of Water control and quality program administration BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Water Department safety composite

Water Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

Water Department: 7.5 → 12.4 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 12.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.44× in 2019

Water Department's TCR rose 4.8 from 7.5 in 2016 to 12.4 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 924110 · Asheville, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.5 · 328% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #6/8
  • PHOTO City of Phoenix F70 …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 57 inj
  • SIZE ~151 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Phoenix F70 Public Wks (0.7 TCR gap)

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Water Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Water Department averages 10.5 TCR (328% of the Water control and quality program administration BLS benchmark).

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

Water Department TCR series: 2016=7.5 · 2017=10 · 2018=12.1 · 2019=12.4 · BLS 3.2

Where Water Department falls in its industry

131 Water control and quality prog establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 8 Water control and quality prog employers in North Carolina.

Water Department (151 employees, TCR 10.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 126 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Water Department
Water Department (151 employees, TCR 10.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 126 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Water Department has more employees than the Water control and quality program admini median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2019 12.4 4.6 16 0 0
2018 12.1 9.4 18 0 0
2017 10.0 7.7 13 0 0
2016 7.5 6.0 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

924110 · NC · Asheville

131 Water control and quality program administration employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 290 employers in Asheville, 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 City of Phoenix F70 Public Wks 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Louisville Jefferson County Metro Govt - Public Works - SWMS - Admin 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0049-00000010 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 00000010 PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT 11.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Graycliff Enterprises 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aquafil OMara 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE Louisiana-Pacific Roxboro 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE Poppelmann Plastics USA LLC 151 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mission Hospital; MH Hospital Manager, LLC 8,097 FTE
CITY-NEAR Biltmore Workforce Management 1,894 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mission Medical Associates 1,336 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Care Partners 1,018 FTE
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0005 2824 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Triad Ohio 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Shopko Hometown #576 (Alpine, TX) 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 10 - Theisen's - Charles City 10.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 6962-Swy 0025 2900 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6962-Swy 0025 2707 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6400-Swy 0027 1798 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6400-Swy 0019 1557 151 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: 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.