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 259 of 340| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JMJS Inc-NC | Charlotte | Office furniture merchant wh | B | 1.1 |
| Technimark LLC - Plant 3 | Asheboro | Cups, plastics (except foam) | A | 1.1 |
| 6223-012 | Concord | General Freight Trucking, Lo | A | 1.1 |
| High Point Admin Unit / Vocational Center | High Point | HEALTH CARE | A | 1.1 |
| High Point (Eagle Hill Drive) | High Point | Thermal Plastic Manufacturin | A | 1.1 |
| 2520 Claremont Folding | Claremont | Folding Paperboard Box Manuf | A | 1.1 |
| Nashville Establishment | Nashville | Printed circuit assemblies m | A | 1.1 |
| Winston-Salem, NC - A403 | Winston Salem | Fullfillment | A | 1.1 |
| Studio Displays | Pineville | Display cases and fixtures ( | A | 1.1 |
| Hanes Brands Inc. | Mount Airy | Textile mills, narrow woven | A | 1.1 |
| Mechanical Contractors Inc. | Charlotte | HVAC (heating, ventilation a | A | 1.1 |
| Strickland Farms Payroll | Salemburg | Tobacco farming, field and s | A | 1.1 |
| Assisted Living | Charlotte | Assisted-living facilities w | A | 1.1 |
| Kurz Transfer Products, L.P. Huntersville, NC | Huntersville | Address lists screen printin | A | 1.1 |
| McFarland Construction | Charlotte | Addition, alteration and ren | A | 1.1 |
| City of Raleigh- General Government | Raleigh | City and town managers' offi | A | 1.1 |
| John Deere Kernersville | Kernersville | Excavators (e.g., power shov | A | 1.1 |
| Concept Steel Inc. | Gastonia | Structural steel, fabricated | A | 1.1 |
| Town of Leland: Fire Station 53 | Leland | General public administratio | A | 1.1 |
| MARION_1371869 | Marion | Mail and Parcel Delivery | A | 1.1 |
| Mueller Systems | Cleveland | Metering devices (except ele | A | 1.1 |
| Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corp. Corporate Office | Lenoir | Distribution of electric pow | C | 1.1 |
| 02601 - Store # 2601 Morehead City | Morehead City | Grocery Stores | A | 1.1 |
| 01353 - Store # 1353 Pfafftown | Pfafftown | Grocery Stores | A | 1.1 |
| 02215 - Store #2215 Charlotte | Charlotte | Grocery Stores | A | 1.1 |
| 02217 - Store #2217 Charlotte | Charlotte | Grocery Stores | A | 1.1 |
| 02504 - Store # 2504 Raleigh | Raleigh | Grocery Stores | A | 1.1 |
| Armstrong Service, Inc. (RJRT) | Tobaccoville | Facilities (except computer | A | 1.1 |
| Alphagary - Pineville | Pineville | Custom compounding (i.e., bl | A | 1.1 |
| Amcor Rigid Plastics | Youngsville | Bottles, plastics, manufactu | A | 1.1 |
| record-USA | Monroe | Door and jamb assemblies, me | A | 1.1 |
| DoubleTree by Hilton Greensboro | Greensboro | Hotels (except casino hotels | A | 1.1 |
| MS - Camp Lejeune, NC - 5CLNC | Camp Lejeune | Car repair shops, general | B | 1.1 |
| North Raleigh Operations Center | Raleigh | Distribution of natural gas | C | 1.1 |
| Corporate Office | Winston-Salem | Office Administrative Servic | A | 1.1 |
| Trinity Manufacturing Inc | Hamlet | Chloropicrin manufacturing | A | 1.1 |
| UNCC Chick-Fil-a | Charlotte | - | A | 1.1 |
| Rowan County Facilities/West End Plaza | Salisbury | General public administratio | A | 1.1 |
| Centerpoint | Durham | Offset printing (except book | A | 1.1 |
| Direct Distributors INC | Garner | Farm supply stores | A | 1.1 |
| Windsor Investments LLC d/b/a Windsor Homes | Greensboro | Single-family housing constr | A | 1.1 |
| Liberty Tire Recycling - Sanford, NC | Sanford | Rubber scrap and scrap tires | B | 1.1 |
| Clancy & Theys Construction Company | Raleigh | Commercial building construc | A | 1.1 |
| Schindler Clinton Escalator Plant | Clinton | Vertical Transportation Comp | A | 1.1 |
| Pmg Sm Nc | Madison | Asphalt paving blocks made f | A | 1.1 |
| JR Cole Industries, Inc. - Prepress Division/Corporate Office | Charlotte | Graphic design services | F | 1.1 |
| 01090 - Store # 1090 Walnut Cove | Walnut Cove | Grocery Stores | A | 1.1 |
| 00775 - Store # 775 Jacksonville | Jacksonville | Grocery Stores | A | 1.1 |
| DRB Group - Raleigh | Morrisville | Housing, single-family, cons | A | 1.1 |
| 566 | Greensboro | Supermrkts & other grocery s | A | 1.1 |
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.