Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers · North Carolina

Carolina Bottling Company Asheville NC

Fletcher, NC · ~41 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Carolina Bottling Company Asheville NC runs at 353% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Carolina Bottling Company Asheville NC: 7.8 TCR = 353% of Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carolina Bottling Company Asheville NC safety composite

Carolina Bottling Company Asheville NC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% 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

−0.5

2017→2022

Carolina Bottling Company Asheville NC injury rate improved

Carolina Bottling Company Asheville NC's TCR fell 0.5 from 5.3 in 2017 to 4.8 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 13.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.3 · 2021=13.2 · 2022=4.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Fletcher, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 353% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #43/54
  • PHOTO Mondelez Manassas
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mondelez Manassas (0.0 TCR gap)

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Carolina Bottling Company Asheville NC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carolina Bottling Company Asheville NC averages 7.8 TCR (353% of the Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Carolina Bottling Company Asheville NC TCR series: 2017=5.3 · 2021=13.2 · 2022=4.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Carolina Bottling Company Asheville NC falls in its industry

1,651 Groceries, general-line, merch establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #43 safest of 54 Groceries, general-line, merch employers in North Carolina.

Carolina Bottling Company Asheville NC (41 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Carolina Bottling Company Asheville NC
Carolina Bottling Company Asheville NC (41 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Carolina Bottling Company Asheville NC has fewer employees than the Groceries, general-line, merchant wholes median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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 4.8 2.4 2 0 0
2021 13.2 5.3 5 0 0
2017 5.3 5.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · NC · Fletcher

1,651 Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 52 employers in Fletcher, 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 Mondelez Manassas 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Williams Institutional Foods, Inc. 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 82 - St. Johns 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR US Foods Los Angeles 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jeff Barnes LLC 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sandhill Turf 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lewiston NC Operation 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hendersonville Operations Center 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR Meritor Fletcher 622 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wilsonart LLC 613 FTE
CITY-NEAR Continental Automotive Systems 610 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wilsonart Fletcher NC 581 FTE
NAT-TCR Compassionate Care Center 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Key Mechanical Kent 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR WDGA01 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR New Castle De (Parkway Circle) Depot 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Luther Park at Sandpoint 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rhenus 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Denison Care Center 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Laser Tech 41 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, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.