Transportation Air Cargo · North Carolina

280520000

Gastonia, NC · ~53 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.6
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

280520000 runs at 225% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Transportation Air Cargo workplace, earning a grade F.

280520000: 14.6 TCR = 225% of Transportation Air Cargo BLS 6.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

280520000 safety composite

280520000 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−2.2

2016→2018

280520000 injury rate improved

280520000's TCR fell 2.2 from 17.8 in 2016 to 15.7 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 17.8 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=17.8 · 2017=10.3 · 2018=15.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 492110 · Gastonia, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.6 · 225% of ind

  • DART 11.2 DART
  • RANK #186/214
  • PHOTO 453420000
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 453420000 (0.0 TCR gap)

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280520000 in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows 280520000 averages 14.6 TCR (225% of the Transportation Air Cargo BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

280520000 TCR series: 2016=17.8 · 2017=10.3 · 2018=15.7 · BLS 6.5

Where 280520000 falls in its industry

6,679 Transportation Air Cargo establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #186 safest of 214 Transportation Air Cargo employers in North Carolina.

280520000 (53 employees, TCR 14.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate 280520000
280520000 (53 employees, TCR 14.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0

280520000 has fewer employees than the Transportation Air Cargo median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.0. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2018 15.7 11.2 6 1 0
2017 10.3 4.1 5 0 0
2016 17.8 7.9 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

492110 · NC · Gastonia

6,679 Transportation Air Cargo employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 182 employers in Gastonia, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 453420000 14.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fast And Forward LLC 14.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 908060000 14.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grace Family Logistics LLC 14.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sanderson Farms St. Pauls Hatchery 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE CPI USA NC LLC - Southport 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Goldsboro Resource Center - PNG 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Master Telecommunications 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston Memorial Hospital, Incorporated d/b/a CaroMont Regional Medical Center 3,156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston County Government 1,711 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wix Allen Plant 931 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gastonia Components and Logistics - Tulip 912 FTE
NAT-TCR Fresno Memory Care, LLC 14.6 TCR
NAT-TCR JR Simplot Company-LL-Feedlot 14.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Rancho Cucamonga CCA 14.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Wave Communications 14.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Van Horn Sheboygan 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Astoria Healthcare Group, LLC 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Monarch LLC. 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE EOS Fitness - Olive 53 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.