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 250 of 340| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rhetson Companies, Inc. | West End | Addition, alteration and ren | A | 1.3 |
| Dewhit Facility Services | Durham | Janitorial services | A | 1.3 |
| Ramar Transportation Inc | Leland | General freight trucking, lo | A | 1.3 |
| Unifi Aviation Services : GSO - Greensboro | Greensboro | Support Activities for Air T | A | 1.3 |
| 00638 - Store # 638 Hickory | Hickory | Grocery Stores | A | 1.3 |
| 363209-Grn-South Memorial | Greenville | Mail and Parcel Delivery | A | 1.3 |
| THMills, Inc. Rockwell | Rockwell | Crew socks knitting or knitt | A | 1.3 |
| 106 | Charlotte | Supermrkts & other grocery s | A | 1.3 |
| 276 | Charlotte | Supermrkts & other grocery s | A | 1.3 |
| 1482 | Raleigh | Supermrkts & other grocery s | A | 1.3 |
| Industrial Connections and Solutions LLC | Mebane | Bus bar structures, switchge | A | 1.3 |
| Foodservice : HUNTERSVILLE | Huntersville | - | A | 1.3 |
| Mechanical Systems & Services, Inc/MSS Solutions, LLC | Charlotte | Heating, ventilation and air | A | 1.3 |
| Carlie C's Service Center | Dunn | Supermarkets | A | 1.3 |
| Sunlight Batteries USA | Greensboro | Storage batteries manufactur | A | 1.3 |
| Asphalt Plants | Wilson | Road construction | A | 1.3 |
| Gardner Inc NC | Browns Summit | Lawn maintenance machinery a | B | 1.3 |
| Forbo | Huntersville | Conveyor belts, rubber, manu | A | 1.3 |
| Enviva Pellets Northampton | Garysburg | MANUFACTURE OF WOOD PELLETS | A | 1.3 |
| BAC Clt CC* | Charlotte | - | A | 1.3 |
| C&B Winston Salem NC Sales 120 | Winston-Salem | Doors and door frames mercha | B | 1.3 |
| 02591 - Store # 2591 Goldsboro | Goldsboro | Grocery Stores | A | 1.3 |
| Erico International Corporation | Aberdeen | Electroplating metals and fo | A | 1.3 |
| 301 - Shawnee-KS | Shawnee | - | A | 1.3 |
| Mountain Area Health Education Center, Inc. / Ridgefield Office | Asheville | Professional development tra | C | 1.3 |
| 4186-01132 | Rocky Mount | All Other General Merchandis | A | 1.3 |
| Winston-Salem NC | Kernersville | Storage Battery Manufacturin | A | 1.3 |
| GKN ePowertrain Newton | Newton | Drive shafts and half shafts | A | 1.3 |
| RHM | Hickory | Household-type furniture, up | A | 1.3 |
| Wh #5 | Charlotte | General warehousing and stor | A | 1.3 |
| 251 | Albemarle | Supermrkts & other grocery s | A | 1.3 |
| 2574 | Rocky Mount | Supermrkts & other grocery s | A | 1.3 |
| Meridian Brick LLC-Salisbury 081/082/083- Meridian Brick LLC | Salisbury | Bricks (i.e., common, face, | A | 1.3 |
| Store 0598 HENDERSON | Henderson | Department stores (except di | A | 1.3 |
| Stanley Black and Decker-Kannapolis DC | Concord | General warehousing and stor | A | 1.3 |
| Clegg's Pest Control - Charlotte | Charlotte | Exterminating services | A | 1.3 |
| InterCon Building Company, LLC | Charlotte | Commercial building construc | A | 1.3 |
| Clarke Power Services | Greensboro | Automotive engine repair and | B | 1.3 |
| Vanderveer's Gas Service - Biscoe - Robbins, NC | Biscoe | Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG | A | 1.3 |
| 2253-N2143 | Greensboro | Skilled Nursing Care Facilit | A | 1.3 |
| Coveris Thomasville | Thomasville | Packaging film, plastics, si | A | 1.3 |
| HPM | Dallas | Custom compounding (i.e., bl | A | 1.3 |
| Fayetteville Works | Fayetteville | Plastics film and unlaminate | A | 1.3 |
| Smith-Rowe, LLC | Mount Airy | Pavement, highway, road, str | A | 1.3 |
| Salem Electric Company | Winston Salem | Electric contracting | A | 1.3 |
| Super-Sod Charlotte | Pineville | Sod farming | A | 1.3 |
| Sodexo at University of North Carolina H | Chapel Hill | Janitorial Services | A | 1.3 |
| Wingate University | Wingate | Academies, college or univer | C | 1.3 |
| GRAD Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill | - | A | 1.3 |
| Greensboro Jamestown 0964 | Jamestown | Other Chemical and Allied Pr | B | 1.3 |
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.