TCR, interpreted
Far above average
4.4 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
North Carolina workplace safety
How 16,981 OSHA-reporting employers across North Carolina compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 14,757 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology).
- 16,981
- Employers
- 4.4
- Avg TCR (rated)
- 287,780
- Injuries (all)
- 227
- Fatalities (all)
North Carolina vs all states by OSHA-reporting employer count
Where this state's ITA establishment inventory sits among every tracked state and territory (coverage signal, not a safety ranking)
16,981 8th of 54 higher than 46 of 54 states
States and territories, banded by OSHA ITA reporting employer count
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Source official public datasets · 2026
The state picture
North Carolina's 14,757 rated reporting employers average 4.4 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.6 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.
- 4.4
- avg TCR · rated subset
- 14,757
- rated employers
- 16,981
- all reporting employers
- 287,780
- recordable injuries (all)
Inventory counts and injury/fatality totals cover all 16,981 ITA establishments; the average TCR excludes zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings. See Methodology → Three Populations.
A · 19% B · 16% C · 30% D · 20% F · 16%
16% of North Carolina's reporting establishments earn an F and 19% an A, each measured against its own industry benchmark, not the state line. These grades are a transparent derived index, not an official OSHA rating; see the Methodology for the exact formula.
Where North Carolina ranks among states
54 states & territories by avg TCRNorth Carolina's average TCR of 4.4 is lower than 87% of states, a state average reflects industry mix as much as workplace safety.
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A second cut tells a different story: ranked by rated-subset injury rate alone, North Carolina is #8 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per rated employer establishment (same 14,757-employer subset), it's #34 of 54, a 26-place swing. A state can run a moderate everyday injury rate while its rarer, most severe incidents cluster differently; the two metrics measure different things on the same population and shouldn't be read as interchangeable.
How North Carolina Workplaces Compare
North Carolina hosts 16,981 employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. These are not small shops: federal rules require ITA submission from workplaces with 250+ employees in any industry, plus workplaces with 20+ employees in the roughly 60 NAICS codes classified as high-hazard (construction, manufacturing, healthcare, warehousing, agriculture, and others). Across this North Carolina cohort, workers have logged 287,780 recordable injuries. The published state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 4.4 injuries per 100 full-time workers uses the 14,757 establishments with a credible rate (zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings stay in the inventory counts above but are excluded from the average, see methodology).
The state has recorded 227 workplace fatalities in the reporting window, which is tracked separately from non-fatal injury counts because fatal events have their own investigation trail under 29 CFR 1904.39. Reading state-level TCR requires context: the headline figure is driven by a state's industry mix. A state with a heavy construction, logging, or meatpacking footprint will mechanically post higher TCR than a state dominated by finance or professional services, even when individual employers are equally well-managed. That is why the employer table below sorts each establishment by its own TCR and letter grade, against the BLS benchmark for its specific industry, not against the state average.
For jobseekers, relocators, investors, and local safety professionals, state-level pages function as an entry point: use the grade-sorted list to spot the safest and highest-risk employers in North Carolina, then click through to an individual establishment for its year-by-year injury, illness, DART, and fatality trajectory. Compare multiple years before drawing conclusions, a single outlier year can reflect a specific event, whereas a sustained pattern across reporting cycles is a more reliable risk signal. All data comes directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries. State OSHA plans in 22 states operate their own enforcement programs in parallel, but the injury data above is harmonized through the federal ITA system.
Employers in North Carolina, by injury rate
Page 138 of 340| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lowes Foods #210 | Harrisburg | Grocery stores | C | 3.7 |
| Apex NC Yard | Apex | Other Building Material Deal | C | 3.7 |
| Tractor Supply Company Store 1495 | Elizabeth City | General Merchandise Stores | C | 3.7 |
| J.L.Smith & Company | Charlotte | Bells (musical instruments) | C | 3.7 |
| City of Asheville Community and Regional Entertainment Facilities | Asheville | Promoters of live performing | D | 3.7 |
| Monkey Junction ReStore | Wilmington | Work (sweat) equity home con | C | 3.7 |
| 0436 - Gav | Gastonia | Home Health Care | B | 3.7 |
| Town of Stantonsburg | Stantonsburg | Advisory commissions, execut | C | 3.7 |
| 6921-00178 | Salisbury | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 3.7 |
| Fire - Town of Black Mountain | Black Mountain | Fire prevention offices, gov | C | 3.7 |
| Boys and Girls Homes of NC | Lake Waccamaw | Boys' and girls' residential | C | 3.7 |
| 00595 - Store # 595 Lillington | Lillington | Grocery Stores | C | 3.7 |
| 02554 - Store # 2554 Clemmons | Clemmons | Grocery Stores | C | 3.7 |
| 2807-2837 | Greenville | Homecenter | C | 3.7 |
| Mechanical Technologies Solution | Winston Salem | Heating, ventilation and air | D | 3.7 |
| Corolla | Corolla | Commercial real estate agent | F | 3.7 |
| 122 | Lexington | Supermrkts & other grocery s | C | 3.7 |
| 900 | Red Springs | Supermrkts & other grocery s | C | 3.7 |
| Mutual Distributing Company - Raleigh | Raleigh | Alcoholic beverages, wine an | D | 3.7 |
| 4103 Winston Salem | Clemmons | Lumber/Plywood/Millwork/Wood | D | 3.7 |
| Upholstery | Morganton | Furniture, household-type, u | C | 3.7 |
| New Bern | New Bern | Beverages, wine and distille | D | 3.7 |
| French Broad Electric Membership Corporation - Burnsville District | Burnsville | Distribution of electric pow | F | 3.7 |
| 1107 - Wilmington | Wilmington | Discount Department Stores | C | 3.7 |
| Colony Tire - Store 21 | Raleigh | Automotive tire dealers | C | 3.7 |
| Bakkavor USA | Charlotte | Prepared meals, perishable, | C | 3.7 |
| Ziehl-Abegg | Greensboro | Fans, industrial and commerc | C | 3.7 |
| Aquafil OMara | Rutherford College | Polyester filament yarn thro | C | 3.7 |
| 0255 - Hip | Hickory | Home Health Care | B | 3.7 |
| Store 007 | Asheville | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 3.7 |
| Hancock & Moore Plant 3 | Taylorsville | Household-type furniture, up | C | 3.7 |
| 00364 - Store # 364 Gastonia | Gastonia | Grocery Stores | C | 3.7 |
| 8807862-Lowe's - Garysburg, NC | Garysburg | Staffing | D | 3.7 |
| 230 | Kings Mountain | Supermrkts & other grocery s | C | 3.7 |
| Lakewood Ymca - Ymca of the Triangle | Durham | Civic & Social Organization | D | 3.7 |
| Kao Specialties Americas LLC | High Point | Surface active agents manufa | C | 3.7 |
| Lowes Foods #226 | Raleigh | Grocery stores | C | 3.7 |
| Lowes Foods #228 | Burlington | Grocery stores | C | 3.7 |
| Corporate Office | Albemarle | Highway Construction - Gradi | D | 3.7 |
| NC - Charlotte | Charlotte | Landscape care and maintenan | C | 3.7 |
| McKenzie Creative Brands | Albemarle | Polyurethane foam products m | C | 3.7 |
| P&D Architectural Precast Inc. | Lagrange | Architectural wall panels, p | C | 3.7 |
| Store 1623 | Emerald Isle | Supermarkets and other groce | C | 3.7 |
| Precision for Medicine Winston-Salem North Carolina | Winston-Salem | Biotechnology research and d | F | 3.7 |
| Wm 7334 | Goldsboro | - | C | 3.7 |
| 4538_9896 | Beaufort | - | C | 3.7 |
| The Loving Group LLC | Charlotte | Landscape care and maintenan | C | 3.7 |
| North Carolina | Mooresville | Air-conditioners, motor vehi | B | 3.7 |
| 02110 - Store # 2110 Columbia | Columbia | Grocery Stores | C | 3.7 |
| 2967-NC42 | Whitsett | Manufacture Electric Motors | C | 3.7 |
Nationwide states with similar injury rates or employer scale
Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for North Carolina: nearest states and territories by rated-subset average Total Case Rate and by OSHA-reporting employer inventory. These are cross-state neighborhoods, not the employer list above.
Similar average TCR
Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (4.4 here).
Similar employer inventory
Nearest states by reporting employer count (16,981 here).
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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.