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 15 of 340| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aqua North Carolina, Inc. - Cary | Cary | Water supply systems | F | 11.9 |
| 2078-South Lake Peds - Hville | Huntersville | Offices and Clinics of Docto | F | 11.9 |
| Asheville Specialty Hospital | Asheville | Hospitals, specialty (except | F | 11.9 |
| Signode | Eden | Primary aluminum production | F | 11.8 |
| Curate | Asheville | Restaurants, full service | F | 11.8 |
| Arcadia Farms dba Arcadia Beverage Company, LLC | Arden | Beverages, fruit and vegetab | F | 11.8 |
| City of Raeford | Raeford | Personnel offices, governmen | F | 11.8 |
| 0223 - Asheville, Nc | Ashville | Retail Stores | F | 11.8 |
| Icare-inc. | Statesville | Individual and family social | F | 11.8 |
| American Mechanical Inc | Randleman | Heating, ventilation and air | F | 11.8 |
| Northwest Greensboro Terminix | Stokesdale | Pest control (except agricul | F | 11.8 |
| Autumn Care of Shallotte | Shallotte | Nursing homes | D | 11.8 |
| Vero Health and Rehab of Sylva | Sylva | Skilled nursing facilities | D | 11.8 |
| Aloft Ballantyne | Charlotte | Hotels (except casino hotels | F | 11.8 |
| Police Department | New Bern | Police departments (except A | F | 11.8 |
| Berco of America-North Carolina | Greensboro | Bakery machinery and equipme | F | 11.8 |
| Courier Express Charlotte, NC | Charlotte | Courier services (i.e., inte | D | 11.8 |
| City of Greensboro Field Operations Department | Greensboro | Sanitation engineering agenc | F | 11.8 |
| Clinton 470 | Clinton | Trusses, wood roof or floor, | F | 11.7 |
| Piedmont Candy Company | Lexington | Candy bars, nonchocolate, ma | F | 11.7 |
| 0610 - Asheboro, Nc | Asheboro | Retail Stores | F | 11.7 |
| Solid Waste Department | Concord | Refuse collection services | F | 11.7 |
| 4186-03483 | Albemarle | Dollar Stores | F | 11.7 |
| IEDS National Hostling Services - Shelby | Shelby | General freight trucking, lo | F | 11.7 |
| Fayetteville Clinic | Fayetteville | Outpatient mental health and | F | 11.7 |
| Carolina Rivers Nursing & Rehabilitation | Jacksonville | Nursing homes | D | 11.7 |
| Randolph Senior Adults Association, Inc | Asheboro | Activity centers for disable | F | 11.7 |
| Store 1237 | Denver | General Merchandise Stores | F | 11.7 |
| Quan Services, Inc. | Concord | Plumbing contractors | F | 11.7 |
| Finance Department-Purchasing | Concord | General services departments | F | 11.7 |
| NCC009 | Cary | Tire Dealers | F | 11.7 |
| Detention Center | Goldsboro | Jails (except private operat | F | 11.7 |
| Brookdale Peachtree 1 | Statesville | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 11.7 |
| Legacy Heights Senior Living Community | Charlotte | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 11.7 |
| Lower Cape Fear LifeCare Pender County Office | Hampstead | Home care of elderly, medica | F | 11.6 |
| Somerset Court of Cherryville | Cherryville | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 11.6 |
| Spring Arbor of Wilmington | Wilmington | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 11.6 |
| Comfort Monster RDU, Inc. | Raleigh | Heating, ventilation and air | F | 11.6 |
| Matthews Specialty Vehicles | Greensboro | Bus bodies assembling on pur | F | 11.6 |
| 6458-ZHIC | Newton | Local Messengers and Local D | F | 11.6 |
| Huntersville Health and Rehabilitation Center | Huntersville | Nursing homes | D | 11.6 |
| Community Development | Winston Salem | General services departments | F | 11.6 |
| Hays Hatchery | Hays | Poultry Hatcheries | F | 11.6 |
| Chesapeake | Chesapaeke | Garden power equipment store | F | 11.6 |
| The Laurels of Hendersonville | Hendersonville | Nursing Care Facilities -Ski | D | 11.6 |
| LFB American Plasma-High Point | High Point | Blood banks | F | 11.6 |
| Waltonwood Cary Parkway AL | Cary | - | F | 11.6 |
| Lincolnton Rehabilitation Center | Lincolnton | Skilled nursing facilities | D | 11.6 |
| 2248-62060 | Winston-Salem | Assisted Living | F | 11.6 |
| Nc Boone Adm | Boone | Group homes, intellectual an | F | 11.6 |
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).
Look up a North Carolina employer → · Compare all states → · How TCR is measured →
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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.