General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Truckload · North Carolina

6870

Shelby, NC · ~231 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

6870 runs at 57% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Truckload workplace, earning a grade B.

6870: 2.6 TCR = 57% of General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Truckload BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

6870 safety composite

6870 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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).

D

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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%).

Rising injury rate

6870: 1.7 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 4.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.29× in 2022

6870's TCR rose 2.8 from 1.7 in 2016 to 4.5 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Shelby, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 57% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #48/125
  • PHOTO Pulaski, VA - 1000 J…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~231 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pulaski, VA - 1000 James Hardie Way (0.0 TCR gap)

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6870 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 6870 averages 2.6 TCR (57% of the General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Truckload BLS benchmark).

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

6870 TCR series: 2016=1.7 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=2 · 2021=3.1 · 2022=4.5 · BLS 4.5

Where 6870 falls in its industry

3,252 General Freight Trucking, Long establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #48 safest of 125 General Freight Trucking, Long employers in North Carolina.

6870 (231 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate 6870
6870 (231 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

6870 has more employees than the General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2022 4.5 3.3 15 0 0
2021 3.1 2.0 7 2 0
2020 2.0 1.6 5 0 0
2019 1.6 1.6 4 0 0
2018 2.6 2.2 6 0 0
2016 1.7 1.3 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · NC · Shelby

3,252 General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Truckload employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 100 employers in Shelby, 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 Pulaski, VA - 1000 James Hardie Way 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR JASPER 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Knoxville/Lenoir City Terminal - DOT 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ruan Logistics Corp T352 RLC 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE GSM Services 231 FTE
STATE-SIZE ASC Taylor Brothers 231 FTE
STATE-SIZE P&G GBO Manufacturing 231 FTE
STATE-SIZE Precision Hydraulic Cylinders, Inc 231 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1111-Atrium Health Cleveland (1111) 1,174 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6070 1,160 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0080-Atrium Health Cleveland 1,158 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0080-CHS Cleveland 1,093 FTE
NAT-TCR JASPER 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Grayson-Collin Electric Cooper 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Neptune Service Ctr 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Azalea Health & Rehabilitation 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE PA-02 231 FTE
NAT-SIZE PLI Cards Los Angeles 231 FTE
NAT-SIZE Community Alterantives 231 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0749 - Mount Laurel Nj Whse 231 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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