Trucking, general freight, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) · North Carolina

Charlotte Clt

Charlotte, NC · ~194 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Charlotte Clt runs at 145% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Trucking, general freight, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) workplace, earning a grade D.

Charlotte Clt: 6.5 TCR = 145% of Trucking, general freight, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Charlotte Clt safety composite

Charlotte Clt scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

Charlotte Clt: 4.2 → 6.8 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 11.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.78× in 2024

Charlotte Clt's TCR rose 2.6 from 4.2 in 2016 to 6.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 11.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Charlotte, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 145% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #128/164
  • PHOTO CUB
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 125 inj
  • SIZE ~194 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CUB (0.0 TCR gap)

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Charlotte Clt in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Charlotte Clt averages 6.5 TCR (145% of the Trucking, general freight, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS benchmark).

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

Charlotte Clt TCR series: 2016=4.2 · 2017=7.5 · 2018=9.9 · 2019=11.5 · 2020=6.5 · 2021=5.1 · 2022=3.6 · 2023=3.7 · 2024=6.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Charlotte Clt falls in its industry

3,020 Trucking, general freight, lon establishments

Safer than 40% 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 #128 safest of 164 Trucking, general freight, lon employers in North Carolina.

Charlotte Clt (194 employees, TCR 6.5) 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 Charlotte Clt
Charlotte Clt (194 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Charlotte Clt has more employees than the Trucking, general freight, long-distance median and a higher 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
2024 6.8 5.1 12 0 0
2023 3.7 2.6 7 0 0
2022 3.6 3.6 8 0 0
2021 5.1 4.6 11 0 0
2020 6.5 5.0 13 0 0
2019 11.5 9.7 25 0 0
2018 9.9 6.9 23 0 0
2017 7.5 4.4 17 0 0
2016 4.2 3.3 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · NC · Charlotte

3,020 Trucking, general freight, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) 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 CUB 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR BAT 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR San Luis Obispo CA FXFE-SLO 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR MAD-KIT 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Charlotte Asphalt 194 FTE
STATE-SIZE Complex 46 Plants 1 and 2 194 FTE
STATE-SIZE Asheboro 194 FTE
STATE-SIZE PCX Holding, LLC, wholly owned subsid of Hubbell Industrial Controls, Knightdale, NC 194 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 1750/3249 Keystone Topeka 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Qrp - Qcy 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 1371 LKQ Advanced 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR AdventHealth Apopka 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 33 Hsc 194 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rosina Food Products - Empire 194 FTE
NAT-SIZE Central Kitchen 194 FTE
NAT-SIZE Asplundh Tree Expert, LLC - 636 194 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, 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.