Refrigerated Warehousing and Storage · North Carolina

Cheney Brothers Inc. - Statesville

Statesville, NC · ~830 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
10.2
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cheney Brothers Inc. - Statesville runs at 176% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Refrigerated Warehousing and Storage workplace, earning a grade D.

Cheney Brothers Inc. - Statesville: 10.2 TCR = 176% of Refrigerated Warehousing and Storage BLS 5.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cheney Brothers Inc. - Statesville safety composite

Cheney Brothers Inc. - Statesville scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Cheney Brothers Inc. - Statesville: 8.3 → 12.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 12.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.15× in 2024

Cheney Brothers Inc. - Statesville's TCR rose 3.7 from 8.3 in 2023 to 12.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493120 · Statesville, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 10.2 · 176% of ind

  • DART 11.7 DART
  • RANK #29/29
  • PHOTO Canby Distribution C…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 111 inj
  • SIZE ~830 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Canby Distribution Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cheney Brothers Inc. - Statesville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cheney Brothers Inc. - Statesville averages 10.2 TCR (176% of the Refrigerated Warehousing and Storage BLS benchmark).

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

Cheney Brothers Inc. - Statesville TCR series: 2023=8.3 · 2024=12 · BLS 5.8

Where Cheney Brothers Inc. - Statesville falls in its industry

1,039 Refrigerated Warehousing and S establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 29 Refrigerated Warehousing and S employers in North Carolina.

Cheney Brothers Inc. - Statesville (830 employees, TCR 10.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Cheney Brothers Inc. - Statesville
Cheney Brothers Inc. - Statesville (830 employees, TCR 10.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Cheney Brothers Inc. - Statesville has more employees than the Refrigerated Warehousing and Storage median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 12.0 11.7 66 0 0
2023 8.3 8.3 45 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493120 · NC · Statesville

1,039 Refrigerated Warehousing and Storage employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 181 employers in Statesville, 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 Canby Distribution Center 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Noel Freezer 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 085 - Lansing Perishables 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seattle - Garfield (CIC) 10.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fleet Feet Sports Development Company 829 FTE
STATE-SIZE COUNTY OF MOORE 828 FTE
STATE-SIZE 71091 834 FTE
STATE-SIZE FSC II, LLC dba Fred Smith Company & River Works, Incorporated (as subsidiary) 835 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2807-0960 974 FTE
CITY-NEAR Doosan Bobcat 857 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0960 LOWE S NORTH CAROLINA RDC 836 FTE
CITY-NEAR DENSO Manufacturing North Carolina, Inc. 662 FTE
NAT-TCR US Cargo-Columbus 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Public Works Garage 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Essentia Virginia Hospital 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Price Rite Store 328 Stoughton 10.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE TCCo-OH 830 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flightstar Aircraft Services, LLC 830 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Jel Sert Company 830 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lexington 830 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.