Bakery products (except frozen) merchant wholesalers · North Carolina

Carolina Foods, LLC

Charlotte, NC · ~355 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Carolina Foods, LLC runs at 104% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bakery products (except frozen) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Carolina Foods, LLC: 2.3 TCR = 104% of Bakery products (except frozen) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carolina Foods, LLC safety composite

Carolina Foods, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 2.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
B 1.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

−2.1

2021→2024

Carolina Foods, LLC injury rate improved

Carolina Foods, LLC's TCR fell 2.1 from 3.3 in 2021 to 1.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=3.3 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=1.2 · 2024=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424490 · Charlotte, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.3 · 104% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #7/46
  • PHOTO The CORE Group- Geor…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~355 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The CORE Group- Georgia (0.0 TCR gap)

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Carolina Foods, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carolina Foods, LLC averages 2.3 TCR (104% of the Bakery products (except frozen) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Carolina Foods, LLC TCR series: 2021=3.3 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=1.2 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Carolina Foods, LLC falls in its industry

1,278 Bakery products (except frozen establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 46 Bakery products (except frozen employers in North Carolina.

Carolina Foods, LLC (355 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Carolina Foods, LLC
Carolina Foods, LLC (355 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Carolina Foods, LLC has more employees than the Bakery products (except frozen) merchant median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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
2024 1.2 1.2 5 0 0
2023 1.2 1.2 5 0 0
2022 3.5 0.6 11 0 0
2021 3.3 1.6 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424490 · NC · Charlotte

1,278 Bakery products (except frozen) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 2,058 employers in Charlotte, 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 The CORE Group- Georgia 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR KY - Mayfield - RC - SALES 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR LYNCHBURG VA 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pepsi Cola of Florence, LLC. 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Liebel-Flarsheim Company, LLC 355 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hamlet Manufacturing Division 355 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crown-Kinston Equipment Company 355 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1355 355 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1101-Carolinas Medical Center (1101) 8,444 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0001-Carolinas Medical Center 8,032 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4795-AA-CLT-CHARLOTTE-CLT-TRML 7,295 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center 4,973 FTE
NAT-TCR Oil States Industries Inc. Lampasas Business Unit 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Jolico / J-B Tool, Inc 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Birch Community Services Inc 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant 765 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Shoprite of Gateway Center 355 FTE
NAT-SIZE Progressive Residential Services of Michigan 355 FTE
NAT-SIZE TCW inc 355 FTE
NAT-SIZE Houston Distribution Center 355 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.