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 92 of 340| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WINTERVILLE | Winterville | Wholesale Distribution of Ro | F | 5.1 |
| Hydro Tube Enterprises, Inc. | Sanford | Pipe fabricating (i.e., bend | D | 5.1 |
| City of Asheville Community and Economic Development | Asheville | Community development agenci | D | 5.1 |
| City of Albemarle | Albemarle | City and town managers' offi | D | 5.1 |
| Shelby Manor | Shelby | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 5.1 |
| Spring Arbor of Kinston | Kinston | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 5.1 |
| ECU Health Bertie Hospital | Windsor | Hospitals, general medical a | B | 5.1 |
| 3641 Winston Salem | Winston Salem | Home Centers | D | 5.1 |
| DLT3 | Hendersonville | Local letter and parcel deli | C | 5.1 |
| Fire Station 1 | Winston Salem | Public safety bureaus and st | D | 5.1 |
| CLT - Charlotte | Charlotte | Bus Charter Service,Except L | C | 5.1 |
| 4535-1603 | Holly Springs | Retail/Home Furnishings | D | 5.1 |
| Plant 5 | Mayodan | Cotton thread manufacturing | D | 5.1 |
| AVS Catering, Inc | Asheboro | Caterers | D | 5.1 |
| 4795-Pd-Ewn-New Bern-Pd | New Bern | Scheduled Passenger Air Tran | C | 5.1 |
| Whse 31 | Trinity | upholstered furniture | D | 5.1 |
| Canton, NC | Canton | Injection molding machinery | D | 5.1 |
| Bradington YOung Furniture | Cherryville | Chair and couch springs, ass | D | 5.1 |
| Store 1470 | Mint Hill | Supermarkets and other groce | D | 5.1 |
| Ncroc - Rocky Mount | Rocky Mount | Couriers and Express Deliver | B | 5.1 |
| MORGANTON_1373786 | Morganton | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 5.1 |
| Colonial Fayetteville | Fayetteville | Drywall and related building | F | 5.1 |
| Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club | Durham | Hotels, resort, without casi | D | 5.1 |
| 10110 Winston Salem | Winston-Salem | - | D | 5.1 |
| Sodexo at Css Carolina Rehab Pineville | Charlotte | Food Service Contractors | D | 5.1 |
| Hanes GEO Componets | Winston Salem | General merchandise, nondura | F | 5.1 |
| Poly-Tech Industrial, Inc. | Huntersville | Machine shops | D | 5.1 |
| Lincolnton Location | Lincolnton | Tempered glass made from pur | D | 5.1 |
| HSP- Homewood Suites Pinehurst | Pinehurst | Hotels (except Casino Hotels | D | 5.1 |
| B33 | Lincolnton | Wholesale Distribution of Me | F | 5.1 |
| Buy Sod - Sandhill | Eagle Springs | Sod farming | C | 5.1 |
| Airlite NonWoven | Hildebran | Felts, nonwoven, manufacturi | D | 5.1 |
| Cleveland House | Shelby | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 5.1 |
| 373 Concord | Concord | Urban Transit Systems | C | 5.1 |
| 628-TW by Merrill, New Bern | New Bern | Retirement homes with nursin | B | 5.1 |
| Store 028 | Marshall | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.1 |
| Wm 2472 | Winston Salem | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.1 |
| 2807-0767 | Fayetteville | Homecenter | D | 5.1 |
| 1298 | Jacksonville | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.1 |
| City of Greensboro IT Department | Greensboro | General services departments | D | 5.1 |
| 4186-00035 | Salisbury | Dollar Stores | D | 5.1 |
| Tri-State Turf of NC | Newton Grove | Bedding plant growing (excep | C | 5.1 |
| Staybridge Suites | Charlotte | Hotels (except casino hotels | D | 5.1 |
| 2576-07400040-0040 | Raleigh | Mental Health Facility | D | 5.1 |
| Greensboro Science Center | Greensboro | Natural science museums | D | 5.1 |
| FAY | Hope Mills | General freight trucking, lo | C | 5.1 |
| Haldex Brake Products Corp. | Marion | Air brake systems and parts, | C | 5.1 |
| Store 1018 | Charlotte | Retail | D | 5.1 |
| Penick Village Inc. | Southern Pines | Skilled nursing facilities | B | 5.1 |
| Gardens of Roseboro | Roseboro | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 5.1 |
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.