General Freight Trucking Long-Distance Truckload · North Carolina

Dedicated Tar Heel

Tar Heel, NC · ~160 workers · 3 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

Dedicated Tar Heel runs at 80% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General Freight Trucking Long-Distance Truckload workplace, earning a grade B.

Dedicated Tar Heel: 3.6 TCR = 80% of General Freight Trucking Long-Distance Truckload BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dedicated Tar Heel safety composite

Dedicated Tar Heel scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

Dedicated Tar Heel: 2.2 → 7.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.51× in 2024

Dedicated Tar Heel's TCR rose 5.1 from 2.2 in 2022 to 7.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Tar Heel, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 3.6 · 80% of ind

  • DART 5.4 DART
  • RANK #72/125
  • PHOTO NEWARK
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~160 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NEWARK (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dedicated Tar Heel in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dedicated Tar Heel averages 3.6 TCR (80% of the General Freight Trucking Long-Distance Truckload BLS benchmark).

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

Dedicated Tar Heel TCR series: 2022=2.2 · 2023=1.4 · 2024=7.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Dedicated Tar Heel 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 #72 safest of 125 General Freight Trucking Long employers in North Carolina.

Dedicated Tar Heel (160 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 Dedicated Tar Heel
Dedicated Tar Heel (160 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Dedicated Tar Heel has more 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
2024 7.2 5.4 8 0 0
2023 1.4 0.6 5 0 0
2022 2.2 1.2 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · NC · Tar Heel

3,252 General Freight Trucking Long-Distance Truckload employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 11 employers in Tar Heel, 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 NEWARK 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pohl Transportation, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR HDS Montgomery 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Transport Continental Inc 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE US Flue-Cured Tobacco Growers Inc. 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE National Wiper Alliance a business of Ecolab 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE 550- Burlington Finishing Plant 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE USA Mt Gilead 160 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tar Heel Fresh 4,593 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp. 3,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tar Heel Distribution Center 351 FTE
CITY-NEAR PSSI - 0238 Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp. - Tar Heel 245 FTE
NAT-TCR Brisbane 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Kimpton Hotel Monaco Pittsburgh 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Rex Electric & Technologies, LLC 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 151 Foods, LLC 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE CDS Global Wilton 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southport Lumber Company 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE Preston Pipelines, Inc. 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE PNC inc 160 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. 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.