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North Carolina workplace safety

Name: North Carolina Employer Workplace Safety Data
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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).

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · September 26, 2026

16,981
Employers: 4.4
Avg TCR (rated): 287,780
Injuries (all): 227
Fatalities (all)

TCR, interpreted

Far above average

4.4 avg TCR

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.

North Carolina grade distribution 16,978 graded establishments · width = share

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 TCR

North 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

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Employer	City	Industry	Grade	Avg TCR
6443	Goldsboro	Warehouse Clubs and Supercen	C	2.7
Store 1689	Midland	General Merchandise Stores	C	2.7
2655	Clemmons	Supermrkts & other grocery s	C	2.7
521 Northridge Distribution	Rural Hall	Warehousing and storage, gen	A	2.7
27 Highland Specialty	Hickory	Paper Bag and Coated and Tre	C	2.7
Richmond Pines Nursing and Rehabilitation	Hamlet	Nursing homes	A	2.7
Carlie C's IGA #860	Lillington	Supermarkets	C	2.7
Stone Systems of Raleigh	Raleigh	Cut Stone and Stone Product	C	2.7
Kfc 6	Shelby	Fast-food restaurants	C	2.7
Dare County Schools Transportation	Manteo	School bus services	B	2.7
Colonial Chemical Solutions, Charlotte	Pineville	Chemicals (except agricultur	D	2.7
Chief Express, LLC	Seagrove	Motor freight carrier, gener	B	2.7
CM Tucker Lumber of Middleburg	Henderson	Structural lumber and timber	C	2.7
62058 Brighton Gardens of Raleigh	Raleigh	Assisted Living	B	2.7
0739 Lowe S of Lumberton Nc	Lumberton	Homecenter	C	2.7
Kill Devil Hills Police	Kill Devil Hills	Police departments (except A	C	2.7
ADESA Charlotte	Charlotte	Utility trailer merchant who	D	2.7
Intensa	High Point	Upholstery (except motor veh	D	2.7
6921-00175	Kill Devil Hills	Supermarkets and Other Groce	C	2.7
6921-00304	Raleigh	Supermarkets and Other Groce	C	2.7
Terra Bella Northridge	Raleigh	Nursing agencies, primarily	B	2.7
Gentry service Group	Swannanoa	Mechanical contractors	C	2.7
North Carolina Museum of Life and Science	Durham	Museums	C	2.7
00237 - Store # 237 Rocky Mount	Rocky Mount	Grocery Stores	C	2.7
00748 - Store # 748 Charlotte	Charlotte	Grocery Stores	C	2.7
00996 - Store # 996 Raleigh	Raleigh	Grocery Stores	C	2.7
Sodexo at Unc-Pembroke	Pembroke	Food Service Contractors	C	2.7
Forsyth Court	Winston-Salem	Assisted-living facilities w	B	2.7
5787	Raeford	Warehouse Clubs and Supercen	C	2.7
2624	Creedmoor	Supermrkts & other grocery s	C	2.7
2628	Atlantic Beach	Supermrkts & other grocery s	C	2.7
CLS - Winston-Salem	Winston-Salem	-	D	2.7
Plant 3	Yadkinville	Bumpers and bumperettes asse	B	2.7
Plant # 5	Lenoir	Upholstered furniture, house	C	2.7
30012-Capstone Pfs Hickory Nc	Hickory	General warehousing and stor	A	2.7
Roanoke Landing Nursing & Rehab	Plymouth	Nursing homes	A	2.7
Field Sales South East	Huntersville	Confectionery merchant whole	D	2.7
Big Lots Store #5235 Fuquay-Variina,	Fuquay-Varina	Retail Other	C	2.7
Stadium Food and Beverage	Charlotte	Food concession contractors	C	2.7
G & W Equipment - Greensboro	Greensboro	Industrial machinery and equ	D	2.7
Piggly Wiggly #90	Warsaw	Supermarkets	C	2.7
ANRAL - Raleigh- NC	Garner	Telecommunications	C	2.7
Henderson, NC SDO	Henderson	Courier services (i.e., inte	A	2.7
NC.CHARL.92 - Ricoh Usa, Inc.	Charlotte	Office Equipment	D	2.7
King Hickory Furniture Company	Hickory	Furniture, household-type, u	C	2.7
Hayward Industries - Flow Control	Clemmons	Injection molding machinery	C	2.7
Belmont Abbey Coll	Belmont	-	C	2.7
Lenoir (Marlin)	Lenoir	Chemicals (except agricultur	D	2.7
4301 Waterleaf	Greensboro	Offset printing (except book	C	2.7
Heavy Grade	Wilson	Road construction	C	2.7

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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).

Ohio TCR 4.4 Arkansas TCR 4.4 Texas TCR 4.4 District of Columbia TCR 4.5

Similar employer inventory

Nearest states by reporting employer count (16,981 here).

Michigan 16,393 emp. Minnesota 15,828 emp. Georgia 14,941 emp. New York 21,008 emp.

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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.