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 73 of 340| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLT-ITP | Charlotte | Aircraft Fuelling | D | 5.9 |
| Waltonwood Providence IL | Charlotte | - | D | 5.9 |
| Ridgecrest Retirement LLC | Mount Airy | CONTINUING CARE RETIREMENT C | D | 5.9 |
| Costa Carolina Operations, LLC | Leicester | House plant growing | D | 5.9 |
| 4653-Atrium Health Behavioral Health - Davidson (4653) | Davidson | General Medical and Surgical | D | 5.9 |
| HG792 | Nags Head | Homefurnishings stores | D | 5.9 |
| Colonial - Cary | Cary | Drywall and related building | F | 5.9 |
| 039/Greensboro | Greensboro | Automobile glass merchant wh | F | 5.9 |
| Proserve Fire Systems, LLC | Fuquay Varina | HEATING AND AIR CONDITIONING | F | 5.9 |
| DLP Person Memorial Hospital | Roxboro | Children's hospitals, genera | B | 5.9 |
| 2180-MMG Museum Medical Plaza | Charlotte | Offices and Clinics of Docto | D | 5.9 |
| Winston Weaver Fertilizer, Inc. | Winston Salem | Nitrogenous fertilizers made | D | 5.9 |
| Carlie C's IGA #880 | Coats | Supermarkets | D | 5.9 |
| Clegg's Termite & Pest Control - Durham | Durham | Exterminating services | D | 5.9 |
| CHD Old Fort | Old Fort | Garage doors, wood, manufact | D | 5.9 |
| Landings of Mills River | Mills River | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 5.9 |
| North Pointe Assisted Living of Archdale | Archdale | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 5.9 |
| Ncwil - Wilkesboro | Wilkesboro | Couriers and Express Deliver | C | 5.9 |
| Avl United Ground Express-Avl | Fletcher | Other Airport Operations | D | 5.9 |
| 2255 Lowe S of West Jefferson Nc | W. Jefferson | Homecenter | D | 5.9 |
| Store 043 | Fletcher | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.9 |
| Wm 4950 | Hendersonville | - | D | 5.9 |
| Jacksonville-Country, NC - BPC | Jacksonville | Blood and Organ Banks | D | 5.9 |
| Division 5, LLC / DBA Structural Steel of Carolina / DBA Salem Steel | Winston-Salem | Fabricated structural metal | D | 5.9 |
| USA NC Sanford Plant | Sanford | PAINT AND COATING MANUFACTUR | D | 5.9 |
| 762 | Cleveland | Plumbing and Heating Equipme | F | 5.9 |
| 4186-00066 | Kinston | Dollar Stores | D | 5.9 |
| 4186-05153 | Raleigh | Dollar Stores | D | 5.9 |
| Hh790-790-Home Care North Carolina | Durham | HEALTHCARE | D | 5.9 |
| Sodexo at Bennett College Fm | Greensboro | Building Cleaning/Maintenanc | D | 5.9 |
| Waste Industries Greensboro | High Point | Waste Collection | F | 5.9 |
| Dfa Distributing South - Charlotte Nc | Charlotte | DAIRY DISTRIBUTION | F | 5.9 |
| Morganton | Morganton | Distribution of electric pow | F | 5.9 |
| Granite Falls_1365372 | Granite Falls | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 5.9 |
| Bayliss Boatworks Inc. | Wanchese | Manufacturing building const | F | 5.9 |
| Douglas | Durham | Hospitals, psychiatric (exce | D | 5.9 |
| Mutual Distributing Company - Charlotte | Charlotte | Alcoholic beverages, wine an | F | 5.9 |
| Franklin Police Department | Franklin | Police departments (except A | D | 5.9 |
| County of Moore Local Government | Carthage | General services departments | D | 5.9 |
| 02652 - Store # 2652 Forest City | Forest City | Grocery Stores | D | 5.9 |
| 2807-0478 | Mount Airy | Homecenter | D | 5.9 |
| 366416-Red Springs Po | Red Springs | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 5.9 |
| Anco Rendering Equipment, LLC | High Point | Oilseed crushing and extract | D | 5.9 |
| Charlotte Airport | Charlotte | Truck tractor rental or leas | F | 5.8 |
| Retail Furniture | Roanoke Rapids | Furniture and appliance stor | D | 5.8 |
| NCC024 | Denver | Tire Dealers | D | 5.8 |
| Weldon Steel Corporation | Weldon | Structural steel, fabricated | D | 5.8 |
| C57 | Mebane | Wholesale Distribution of Me | F | 5.8 |
| Astro Pak Corporation - North Carolina | Raleigh | Anodizing metals and metal p | D | 5.8 |
| 2915 Lumberton Dc and Se Region Retail Office (Nc) | Lumberton | General Warehousing and Stor | C | 5.8 |
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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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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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.