General Freight Trucking, long-distance, LTL · North Carolina

DSM-ODFL

Thomasville, NC · ~290 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DSM-ODFL runs at 98% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General Freight Trucking, long-distance, LTL workplace, earning a grade C.

DSM-ODFL: 4.4 TCR = 98% of General Freight Trucking, long-distance, LTL BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DSM-ODFL safety composite

DSM-ODFL scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

DSM-ODFL: 3.3 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.19× in 2024

DSM-ODFL's TCR rose 2.3 from 3.3 in 2023 to 5.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Thomasville, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.4 · 98% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #80/164
  • PHOTO LHG
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~290 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LHG (0.0 TCR gap)

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DSM-ODFL in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DSM-ODFL averages 4.4 TCR (98% of the General Freight Trucking, long-distance, LTL BLS benchmark).

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

DSM-ODFL TCR series: 2023=3.3 · 2024=5.5 · BLS 4.5

Where DSM-ODFL falls in its industry

3,020 General Freight Trucking, long establishments

Safer than 67% 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 #80 safest of 164 General Freight Trucking, long employers in North Carolina.

DSM-ODFL (290 employees, TCR 4.4) 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 DSM-ODFL
DSM-ODFL (290 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

DSM-ODFL has more employees than the General Freight Trucking, long-distance, median and a lower 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 5.5 5.2 17 0 0
2023 3.3 3.3 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · NC · Thomasville

3,020 General Freight Trucking, long-distance, LTL employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 142 employers in Thomasville, 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 LHG 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR PEN-WDD 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR R+L Carriers - DVP 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR RGP-ODFL 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE American Zinc Products, LLC 290 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wayne J. Griffin Electric Inc. - Durham 289 FTE
STATE-SIZE Procter and Gamble-Greensboro PHC 289 FTE
STATE-SIZE HC Composites LLC 291 FTE
CITY-NEAR MRT-ODFL 1,091 FTE
CITY-NEAR CPT-ODFL 908 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Thomasville Medical Center 725 FTE
CITY-NEAR ATL-ODFL 600 FTE
NAT-TCR Nottoway Correctional Center 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Gold Bond Building Products, LLC 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Heraeus Epurio LLC 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Florida Medical Center 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Duncan Aviation PVU 290 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gielow Pickles, Inc 290 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marvair 290 FTE
NAT-SIZE Four Seasons Hotel One Dalton Street, Boston 290 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.

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

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