Oils, vegetable and animal, medicinal, uncompounded, manufacturing · North Carolina

Avoca, LLC

Name: Avoca, LLC Workplace Safety Data
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Merry Hill, NC · ~112 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 1.8
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Avoca, LLC runs at 53% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Oils, vegetable and animal, medicinal, uncompounded, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Avoca, LLC: 1.8 TCR = 53% of Oils, vegetable and animal, medicinal, uncompounded, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Avoca, LLC safety composite

Avoca, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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).

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 1.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers
DART rate: D 1.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−0.6

2016→2020

Avoca, LLC injury rate improved

Avoca, LLC's TCR fell 0.6 from 1.9 in 2016 to 1.3 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.2 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.9 · 2017=2.2 · 2018=1.4 · 2019=2.1 · 2020=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325411 · Merry Hill, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 53% of ind

DART 1.3 DART
RANK #4/8
PHOTO General Atomics - Po…
BOOK 5y book
INJ 9 inj
SIZE ~112 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: General Atomics - Poway - DPC01 (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Avoca, LLC averages 1.8 TCR (53% of the Oils, vegetable and animal, medicinal, uncompounded, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Avoca, LLC TCR series: 2016=1.9 · 2017=2.2 · 2018=1.4 · 2019=2.1 · 2020=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Avoca, LLC falls in its industry

260 Oils, vegetable and animal, me establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 8 Oils, vegetable and animal, me employers in North Carolina.

Avoca, LLC (112 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 120 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Avoca, LLC has fewer employees than the Oils, vegetable and animal, medicinal, u median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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
2020	1.3	1.3	1	0
2019	2.1	2.1	2	0
2018	1.4	0.0	1	1
2017	2.2	0.0	3	0
2016	1.9	0.9	2	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325411 · NC · Merry Hill

260 Oils, vegetable and animal, medicinal, uncompounded, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 3 employers in Merry Hill, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	General Atomics - Poway - DPC01	POWAY, CA	1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	6319-020025	DEERFIELD BEACH, FL	1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	6286_15357	JACKSONVILLE, FL	1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Evonik Corporation Tippecanoe Laboratories	LAFAYETTE, IN	1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Winston-Salem	GREENSBORO	112 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Environamics-Charlotte	CHARLOTTE	112 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Carolina Sunrock Contracting	DURHAM	112 FTE
STATE-SIZE	BT Morrisville	MORRISVILLE	112 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Avoca, LLC - NC	Merry Hill	80 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Tarheel Cotton Company, Inc.	Merry Hill	20 FTE
NAT-TCR	Kautex Textron Detroit	Detroit, MI	1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Gardendale	Gardendale, TX	1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	JBK Manufacturing, LLC	Dayton, OH	1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Franklin IGA Inc	Franklin, WV	1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Eulcid	Euclid, OH	112 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Bemidji Lumbermill	Bemidji, MN	112 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Satinarab LLC	Barranquitas, PR	112 FTE
NAT-SIZE	International Flavors & Fragrances - Carrollton	Carrollton, TX	112 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.