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 209 of 340| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 797 | Belmont | Supermrkts & other grocery s | B | 2.2 |
| 2613 | Fayetteville | Supermrkts & other grocery s | B | 2.2 |
| Freud America, Inc - High Point NC | High Point | General warehousing and stor | A | 2.2 |
| Kitchen Ventilation Systems | Kings Mountain | Ventilating fans, industrial | B | 2.2 |
| Complex 46 Plant 3 | Mcadenville | Carpet and rug yarn spinning | B | 2.2 |
| PBY NC South Blvd | Charlotte | Auto and Home Supply Stores | B | 2.2 |
| 029-00366 | Durham | Supermarkets and other groce | B | 2.2 |
| Club 375 | Charlotte | Warehouse Club and Supercent | B | 2.2 |
| Pike Virginia Statewide Operations | Mount Airy | Construction management, pow | B | 2.2 |
| Durham Division | Durham | Metals service centers | C | 2.2 |
| Lincolnton | Iron Station | Ball and Roller Bearing Manu | B | 2.2 |
| Kewaunee Scientific Corporation | Statesville | Furniture, laboratory-type ( | B | 2.2 |
| Ctc - Ctn | Huntersville | Residential for-sale builder | B | 2.2 |
| Majestic Kitchen & Bath Creations | Youngsville | Cutting, engraving, etching, | B | 2.2 |
| Old North State Masonry LLC | Matthews | Bricklaying contractors | B | 2.2 |
| East Carolina LF 3026 | Tarboro | Waste disposal landfills, no | C | 2.2 |
| ROANOKE | Roanoke Rapids | Electric Power Distribution | D | 2.2 |
| STR0008 | Sanford | Department stores except dis | B | 2.2 |
| Hills #12 | Shallotte | Grocery stores | B | 2.2 |
| 507 | Monroe | Supermrkts & other grocery s | B | 2.2 |
| 2110 | Columbia | Supermrkts & other grocery s | B | 2.2 |
| Custom Door & Gate - Raleigh #569A | Raleigh | Overhead door, residential-t | B | 2.2 |
| SPT | Greensboro | home health care | A | 2.2 |
| Plant 23 | Landis | Carded yarn manufacturing | B | 2.2 |
| Automated Solutions LLC | Sawmills | Bags, plastics film, single | B | 2.2 |
| Mauser USA LLC | Harrisburg | Air cargo containers, light | B | 2.2 |
| Public Health - High Point | High Point | Public health program admini | B | 2.2 |
| Rocky Mount (Ncroc) | Rocky Mount | Courier Services Except by A | A | 2.2 |
| Wilson (BAMG) | Wilson | Tire manufacturing | B | 2.1 |
| M&M Electric Service, Inc | Gastonia | Electrical work | B | 2.1 |
| Courtyard Triangle Town Center Concord Hospitality | 3401 Sumner Blvd Raleigh | Hotels (except casino hotels | B | 2.1 |
| High Point Admin Unit | High Point | Residential Intellectual and | B | 2.1 |
| 0426 Lowe S of Cary Nc | Cary | Homecenter | B | 2.1 |
| Waste Industries LLC 3 | Henderson | Waste Collection | C | 2.1 |
| Raeford Hospice | Raeford | Hospice care services, in ho | A | 2.1 |
| Buck CT/CC | Salisbury | Fossil Fuel Electric Power G | D | 2.1 |
| Big Lots Store #5396 Lumberton, NC | Lumberton | Retail Other | B | 2.1 |
| Resolute Building Company, Inc | Chapel Hill | Commercial building construc | B | 2.1 |
| 01454 - Store # 1454 Raleigh | Raleigh | Grocery Stores | B | 2.1 |
| 00930 - Store # 930 Rockingham | Rockingham | Grocery Stores | B | 2.1 |
| 01654 - Store # 1654 Raleigh | Raleigh | Grocery Stores | B | 2.1 |
| Niagara- Mooresville, NC | Mooresville | Support Activities for road | A | 2.1 |
| Davis Landscape LTD NC Office | Raleigh | Landscape care and maintenan | A | 2.1 |
| 1282 | Snow Hill | Supermrkts & other grocery s | B | 2.1 |
| 4186-00790 | Southern Pines | Dollar Stores | B | 2.1 |
| Hampton Inn Concord | Concord | Hotels (except casino hotels | B | 2.1 |
| 2157-SHVI - Shelby | Shelby | Offices and Clinics of Docto | B | 2.1 |
| Gerdau - Charlotte RS | Charlotte | Fabricated structural metal | B | 2.1 |
| C513 New Bern | New Bern | - | C | 2.1 |
| Elkin Hatchery | Elkin | Poultry Hatcheries | A | 2.1 |
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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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.