Long Distance Truckload · North Carolina
Ashley Distribution Services, Ltd. - North Carolina
Advance, NC · ~182 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- C
- Average Safety Record
- 4.9
- Avg TCR
- 4.5
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Ashley Distribution Services, Ltd. - North Carolina runs at 108% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Long Distance Truckload workplace, earning a grade C.
- C
- Average Safety Record
- 4.9
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 4.5
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 31
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares Ashley Distribution Services, Ltd. - North Carolina's OSHA Total Case Rate of 4.9 to the Long Distance Truckload BLS benchmark of 4.5 (108% of benchmark) across 2 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). This reflects reported recordable injuries, not an independent safety inspection -- underreporting is a known limitation of employer self-recordkeeping.
Injury rate over time
Ashley Distribution Services, Ltd. - North Carolina's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 4.5 industry benchmark.
Where Ashley Distribution Services, Ltd. - North Carolina falls in its industry
3,776 Long Distance Truckload establishmentsSafer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.
Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #122 safest of 145 Long Distance Truckload employers in North Carolina.
Trend analysis for Ashley Distribution Services, Ltd. - North Carolina
Between 2023 and 2024, Ashley Distribution Services, Ltd. - North Carolina's Total Case Rate improved from 5.8 to 3.9 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 33% decrease across 1 year of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2024, at a TCR of 3.9, while 2023 saw the highest rate, at 5.8, a spread of 2.0 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a comparatively narrow spread, suggesting a fairly consistent safety record across the 2 years with a usable rate on file, rather than one outlier year skewing the multi-year average.
Summed across those 2 reporting years, Ashley Distribution Services, Ltd. - North Carolina recorded 31 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 2-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 31 injuries shown on this page for Ashley Distribution Services, Ltd. - North Carolina are sourced from its own 2 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 484121 - Long Distance Truckload.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
12 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 619,305 hours worked = 3.88 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Ashley Distribution Services, Ltd. - North Carolina (this establishment) | 4.86 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 2-year avg |
| General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) industry avg | 4.50 | BLS IIF, NAICS 484121 |
| North Carolina state avg (all industries) | 3.89 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Ashley Distribution Services, Ltd. - North Carolina to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2024: 12 reportable incidents · 12 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2023: 19 reportable incidents · 19 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 5.8 | 4.9 | 19 | 0 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Ashley Distribution Services, Ltd. - North Carolina's reported OSHA injury record versus its Long Distance Truckload peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 108% of the Long Distance Truckload benchmark, Ashley Distribution Services, Ltd. - North Carolina reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Long Distance Truckload sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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.