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 226 of 340| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Composite Fabrics of America CFA | Taylorsville | Carbonizing textile fibers | B | 1.8 |
| GKN Alamance | Mebane | Drive shafts and half shafts | A | 1.8 |
| Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger Corp | Charlotte | Boiler casings manufacturing | B | 1.8 |
| Fuji Foods, USA-6206 | Browns Summit | Soup mixes, dry, made from p | A | 1.8 |
| Fred Anderson Nissan of Fayetteville | Fayetteville | Parts and accessories dealer | B | 1.8 |
| Kannapolis Distribution Center | Concord | General warehousing and stor | A | 1.8 |
| Charlotte, Nc (395) | Charlotte | - | D | 1.8 |
| Diebold Bull Ridge | Greensboro | General Warehousing and Stor | A | 1.8 |
| Warehouse | Yadkinville | General warehousing and stor | A | 1.8 |
| Texwipe - Mt. Airy, NC | Mt. Airy | Disinfectants, household-typ | B | 1.8 |
| Lexington Technologies Company | Lexington | Cutting dies, metalworking, | B | 1.8 |
| Allen Steam | Belmont | 1 | B | 1.8 |
| Pinnacle Trailer Sales, Inc. | Wilmington | Truck trailer merchant whole | C | 1.8 |
| NVT Technologies Inc (North Carolina Office) | Durham | Facilities (except computer | B | 1.8 |
| Charlotte Marriott City Center | Charlotte | Hotels, resort, without casi | B | 1.8 |
| USA NC High Point | High Point | Plumbing and heating contrac | B | 1.8 |
| Lake Shore Commons | Wilmington | Assisted-living facilities w | A | 1.8 |
| Carmel Place | Charlotte | Assisted-living facilities w | A | 1.8 |
| Cedar Ridge | Burlington | Assisted-living facilities w | A | 1.8 |
| 44561g - Goldsboro Bin | La Grange | Confectionery Merchant Whole | C | 1.8 |
| Carolina Apparel Group, Inc. | Wadesboro | T-shirts, underwear, made in | B | 1.8 |
| Toddwood Mfg. Inc. | Highpoint | Cabinets, wood household-typ | B | 1.8 |
| 30422 - Capstone Smithfield Foods Tar Heel Nc | Tar Heel | General warehousing and stor | A | 1.8 |
| Dazzle Up LLC Dba Simply Southern | Greensboro | Address lists screen printin | B | 1.8 |
| QSI Kinston | Kinston | Building cleaning services, | A | 1.8 |
| Royal Manufacturing - Charlotte Facility | Charlotte | Countertops, stone, manufact | B | 1.8 |
| Washington Fire and Rescue #2 | Washington | Fire and rescue service | B | 1.8 |
| Pexco, LLC - Asheboro | Asheboro | Profile shapes (e.g., rod, t | B | 1.8 |
| Exela Pharma Sciences, LLC. | Lenoir | Pharmaceutical preparations | B | 1.8 |
| GDS Morganton 3152 | Morganton | Waste collection services, n | B | 1.8 |
| 0084 - Ash | Asheville | Home Health Care | A | 1.8 |
| 6921-00331 | Cary | Supermarkets and Other Groce | B | 1.8 |
| STF Precision LLC | Arden | Cutters, metal milling, manu | B | 1.8 |
| Bh Western One Asheville Bhs | Asheville | HEALTH CARE | A | 1.8 |
| Masterbrand Cabinets - Liberty Operations | Liberty | Cabinets, kitchen (except fr | B | 1.8 |
| 818 | Fayetteville | Supermrkts & other grocery s | B | 1.8 |
| NGAS-W528 | Charlotte | Other Electronic Component M | B | 1.8 |
| Store 0028 ROCKY MOUNT | Rocky Mount | Department stores (except di | B | 1.8 |
| Hotel Indigo Asheville | Asheville | Hotels, resort, without casi | B | 1.8 |
| Primus Contracting, Inc | Newport | Addition, alteration and ren | B | 1.8 |
| Trinity Oaks Retirement | Salisbury | Assisted-living facilities w | A | 1.8 |
| 2056-MMG Matthews | Matthews | Offices and Clinics of Docto | A | 1.8 |
| Complex 46 | Mcadenville | Polypropylene filament yarn | B | 1.8 |
| Guilford County - County Administration | Greensboro | General public administratio | B | 1.8 |
| Carlie C's IGA #895 | Fayetteville | Supermarkets | B | 1.8 |
| MiTek, Inc. - Edenton Stamping | Edenton | Metal stampings (except auto | B | 1.8 |
| Corp et al | Charlotte | Highway construction | B | 1.8 |
| EMA Resources, Inc. | Mocksville | Nonhazardous waste treatment | B | 1.8 |
| SBS N Carolina - Hickory | Hickory | Office machines merchant who | C | 1.8 |
| Durham Area Ymca - Ymca of the Triangle | Durham | Civic & Social Organization | C | 1.8 |
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.