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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
G & W Equipment - Raleigh	Raleigh	Industrial machinery and equ	D	2.7
Biltmore Workforce Management	Asheville	Historical sites	C	2.7
Store 1514	Wake Forest	Supermarkets and other groce	B	2.7
CIN-ODFL	Thomasville	General Freight Trucking, lo	B	2.7
Agrarian Inc	Stantonsburg	Agriculture production or ha	B	2.7
Prime Energy Group Charlotte	Charlotte	Foam insulation installation	C	2.7
Mohawk Industries: Garner NC Pergo Pkwy	Garner	Private warehousing and stor	A	2.7
PTI	Hickory	Laminated Plastics Plate, Sh	C	2.7
1808-00020103-05211	Marion	Supermarket	B	2.7
Edgecombe Health and Rehabilitation Center	Tarboro	Skilled nursing facilities	A	2.7
2571	Pink Hill	Supermrkts & other grocery s	B	2.7
Syncot South	Belmont	Awnings, rigid plastics or f	C	2.7
Hampton Inn & Suites Carolina Beach - Oceanfront	Carolina Beach	Hotels (except casino hotels	C	2.7
HAECO Americas Line Services - GSO	Greensboro	Maintenance and repair servi	B	2.7
Heritage Home Group	Lenoir	Wood framed furniture, uphol	C	2.7
North Durham Operations Center	Durham	Natural gas distribution sys	F	2.7
Harrisburg NC Yard	Harrisburg	Other Building Material Deal	B	2.7
Charlotte NS	Charlotee	Loading and unloading servic	B	2.7
Birch LTC Group, LLC d/b/a Barbour Court Nursing & Rehabilitation	Smithfield	Nursing homes	A	2.7
Stokes Tire & Automotive, Inc.	King	Tire dealers, automotive	B	2.7
399 - Clinton	Clinton	Industrial Launderers	D	2.7
KCY-ODFL	Thomasville	General Freight Trucking, lo	B	2.7
Store 4945 - Millbrook Rd NC	Raleigh	Automotive Parts	B	2.7
Whitewood Industries, Plant 2	Thomasville	Furniture (except drafting t	D	2.7
Orange County - Health Department -Chapel Hill Medical Clinic	Chapel Hill	Health program administratio	C	2.7
8020187 - Terminal Building Ph 2 Modernization	Fletcher	Addition, alteration and ren	C	2.7
Log Greensboro Ndc_1558196	Greensboro	Mail and Parcel Delivery	B	2.7
Tenowo, Inc	Lincolnton	Nonwoven fabrics manufacturi	C	2.7
Wm 2704	Randleman	Warehouse Clubs and Supercen	B	2.7
Wm 9639	Lumberton	-	A	2.7
6921-00066	Charlotte	Supermarkets and Other Groce	B	2.7
8020236-Energizer/Asheboro	Asheboro	Staffing	C	2.7
Best Buy Metals LLC Asheville	Asheville	Custom roll forming metal pr	C	2.7
02101 - Store # 2101 Princeton	Princeton	Grocery Stores	B	2.7
9215-GSO	Greensboro	Ground Handler	B	2.7
809	Fayetteville	Supermrkts & other grocery s	B	2.7
4186-04609	Charlotte	Dollar Stores	B	2.7
Greensboro Resource Center PNG	Greensboro	Natural Gas Distribution	F	2.7
Greensboro Terminal - DOT	Greensboro	Transportation Motor Freight	B	2.7
Morganton Feed Mill	Shelby	Corn meal made in flour mill	C	2.7
Roses 525	New Bern	General stores	B	2.7
Berry Global Group, Inc. - Evansville, IN	Battleboro	Bottles, plastics, manufactu	C	2.7
Young Transportation	Asheville	Charter bus services (except	B	2.7
2096-Charlotte OB/GYN	Charlotte	Offices and Clinics of Docto	B	2.7
Henry Schein Dental Charlotte Center	Indian Trail	Dental equipment and supplie	D	2.7
Vcf 112	Charlotte	Furniture stores (e.g., hous	B	2.7
Lowes Foods #186	Wilmington	Grocery stores	B	2.7
Morrisville	Morrisville	Audio equipment installation	C	2.7
C&B-Martin Arch Cary NC 480	Cary	Doors and door frames mercha	D	2.7
CharlotteBB	Charlotte	Trucking	B	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.