General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) · North Carolina

Century Services

Hickory, NC · ~32 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Century Services runs at 79% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade B.

Century Services: 3.6 TCR = 79% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Century Services safety composite

Century Services scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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).

F

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Century Services: 0.0 → 10.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 10.7 TCR · DART/TCR 3× in 2023

Century Services's TCR rose 10.7 from 0.0 in 2016 to 10.7 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Hickory, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.6 · 79% of ind

  • DART 10.7 DART
  • RANK #70/125
  • PHOTO 300000170856037 - CA…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 300000170856037 - CA-San Bernardino Intermodal (0.0 TCR gap)

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Century Services in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Century Services averages 3.6 TCR (79% of the General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

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

Century Services TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=3.6 · 2018=0 · 2019=3.5 · 2023=10.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Century Services falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #70 safest of 125 General freight trucking, long employers in North Carolina.

Century Services (32 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Century Services
Century Services (32 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Century Services has fewer employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2023 10.7 10.7 3 0 0
2019 3.5 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 3.6 0.0 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · NC · Hickory

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 240 employers in Hickory, 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 300000170856037 - CA-San Bernardino Intermodal 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cox Transportation Services LLC 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Orange 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eden Terminal 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE T.C. Smith Produce Farm 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE LATHAMS NURSERY INC. - MONROE, NC 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lake Wendell Farming Co. LLC 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Case Farms Goldsboro Hatchery 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Catawba Valley Medical Center 2,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR Merchants Distributors LLC 1,480 FTE
CITY-NEAR Frye Regional Medical Center 1,363 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hickory Manufacturing & Technology Center 1,006 FTE
NAT-TCR Sun Chemical Concord Plates 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Lakewood Country Club 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Stephen F Peters Inc 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Harbor Health Services, Inc. HCHC-P 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Agc Va (Loc Code: Agcva1) 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE AZZ Galvanizing - Louisville 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fairview Caseyville Township Fire Protection District 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Princess Paper Inc 32 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: 2023, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.