General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) · North Carolina

Central Freight Lines - Conover, NC

Conover, NC · ~18 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Central Freight Lines - Conover, NC runs at 92% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) workplace, earning a grade C.

Central Freight Lines - Conover, NC: 4.1 TCR = 92% of General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Central Freight Lines - Conover, NC safety composite

Central Freight Lines - Conover, NC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Central Freight Lines - Conover, NC: 0.0 → 8.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 8.3 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2020

Central Freight Lines - Conover, NC's TCR rose 8.3 from 0.0 in 2018 to 8.3 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Conover, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.1 · 92% of ind

  • DART 8.3 DART
  • RANK #72/164
  • PHOTO LJB
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LJB (0.0 TCR gap)

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Central Freight Lines - Conover, NC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Central Freight Lines - Conover, NC averages 4.1 TCR (92% of the General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Central Freight Lines - Conover, NC TCR series: 2018=0 · 2020=8.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Central Freight Lines - Conover, NC falls in its industry

3,020 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #72 safest of 164 General freight trucking, long employers in North Carolina.

Central Freight Lines - Conover, NC (18 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Central Freight Lines - Conover, NC
Central Freight Lines - Conover, NC (18 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Central Freight Lines - Conover, NC has fewer employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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
2020 8.3 8.3 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · NC · Conover

3,020 General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 95 employers in Conover, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR LJB 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR ATLANTA FUL 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clearwater FL FXFE-CLR 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jacksonville FL FXFE-JAX 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE STATESVILLE, NC #03296 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Store 0366 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eagle's Nest Foundation 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE S.A. Comunale - Greensboro - NC 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR Zenith - Conover 409 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 4224 369 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4224 327 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2510 Conover Folding 309 FTE
NAT-TCR La Crosse - GLCC 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Able Industrial Products, Inc 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Attentive Care of Albany, Inc. 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Carter Park Drive Practices 4.1 TCR

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, 2018. 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.