BUILDING MATERIALS DEALER · North Carolina

Carter Lumber 424

Charlotte, NC · ~36 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Carter Lumber 424 runs at 134% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical BUILDING MATERIALS DEALER workplace, earning a grade D.

Carter Lumber 424: 4.6 TCR = 134% of BUILDING MATERIALS DEALER BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carter Lumber 424 safety composite

Carter Lumber 424 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−1.9

2018→2024

Carter Lumber 424 injury rate improved

Carter Lumber 424's TCR fell 1.9 from 4.2 in 2018 to 2.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 10.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=4.2 · 2019=10.3 · 2020=2.9 · 2021=2.7 · 2022=2.1 · 2023=7.6 · 2024=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444190 · Charlotte, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 134% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #26/53
  • PHOTO CARTER LUMBER 394
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CARTER LUMBER 394 (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · North Carolina employers → · Look up another →

Carter Lumber 424 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carter Lumber 424 averages 4.6 TCR (134% of the BUILDING MATERIALS DEALER BLS benchmark).

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

Carter Lumber 424 TCR series: 2018=4.2 · 2019=10.3 · 2020=2.9 · 2021=2.7 · 2022=2.1 · 2023=7.6 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Carter Lumber 424 falls in its industry

1,643 BUILDING MATERIALS DEALER establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 53 BUILDING MATERIALS DEALER employers in North Carolina.

Carter Lumber 424 (36 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Carter Lumber 424
Carter Lumber 424 (36 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Carter Lumber 424 has more employees than the BUILDING MATERIALS DEALER median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 2.3 0.0 1 0 0
2023 7.6 2.5 3 0 0
2022 2.1 0.0 1 0 0
2021 2.7 0.0 1 0 0
2020 2.9 0.0 1 0 0
2019 10.3 0.0 3 0 0
2018 4.2 2.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444190 · NC · Charlotte

1,643 BUILDING MATERIALS DEALER 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 CARTER LUMBER 394 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kinter 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 7219 L&W Supply 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR KRC Rock, Inc. 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Butterball Hatchery # 1 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Carolina Farms (CV) 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yadkin 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edgecombe Genco, LLC. 36 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 Cqt Kennedy LLC 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Fidelitone - Manassas, VA 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Plymouth Luther Collision 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR West Seneca 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cool Air Solutions, Inc. 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Snow Peak 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clean Earth of North Jersey, Inc. 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stoneledge Furniture LLC- West Covina 36 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, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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