Farm supply stores · North Carolina

Direct Distributors INC

Garner, NC · ~101 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Direct Distributors INC runs at 33% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Farm supply stores workplace, earning a grade A.

Direct Distributors INC: 1.1 TCR = 33% of Farm supply stores BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Direct Distributors INC safety composite

Direct Distributors INC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Direct Distributors INC: 1.0 → 2.4 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 293.0 TCR · DART/TCR 2.14× in 2024

Direct Distributors INC's TCR rose 1.4 from 1.0 in 2016 to 2.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 293.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 2.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444220 · Garner, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 33% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #1/12
  • PHOTO Lake Conroe
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~101 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lake Conroe (0.0 TCR gap)

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Direct Distributors INC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Direct Distributors INC averages 1.1 TCR (33% of the Farm supply stores BLS benchmark).

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

Direct Distributors INC TCR series: 2016=1 · 2017=293 · 2018=0 · 2019=0.9 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Direct Distributors INC falls in its industry

642 Farm supply stores establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 12 Farm supply stores employers in North Carolina.

Direct Distributors INC (101 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Direct Distributors INC
Direct Distributors INC (101 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Direct Distributors INC has more employees than the Farm supply stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.9. 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 2.4 2.4 2 0 0
2023 2.4 1.2 2 0 0
2022 2.3 1.1 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 293.0 195.3 3 0 0
2016 1.0 1.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · NC · Garner

642 Farm supply stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 139 employers in Garner, 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 Lake Conroe 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stillwater Milling Davis 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR RK-950- Corporate (RK-950 ) 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 9042 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Greensboro Resource Center - PNG 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE Barringer Construction, LLC 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE Public Services 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carrier Commercial Services (Charlotte Northwoods) 101 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - RDU1 4,707 FTE
CITY-NEAR Overland Contracting Inc. 802 FTE
CITY-NEAR PBV-Garner 542 FTE
CITY-NEAR Region 056 506 FTE
NAT-TCR Texas 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ram Custom Services 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Miramar 10214 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Northwest Hardwoods Buena Vista 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Totten Tubes Inc 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE CMC Rescue Inc 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE ABF Freight 050 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advantage Controls, LLC 101 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.