Warehouse & Distribution · North Carolina

Empire Distributors NC CHARLOTTE

Charlotte, NC · ~132 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Empire Distributors NC CHARLOTTE runs at 400% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Warehouse & Distribution workplace, earning a grade F.

Empire Distributors NC CHARLOTTE: 8.8 TCR = 400% of Warehouse & Distribution BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Empire Distributors NC CHARLOTTE safety composite

Empire Distributors NC CHARLOTTE scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

TCR Δ

−12.2

2016→2017

Empire Distributors NC CHARLOTTE injury rate improved

Empire Distributors NC CHARLOTTE's TCR fell 12.2 from 14.9 in 2016 to 2.7 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 14.9 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=14.9 · 2017=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424820 · Charlotte, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 400% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #25/27
  • PHOTO RM Beverage Delaware
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~132 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RM Beverage Delaware (0.0 TCR gap)

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Empire Distributors NC CHARLOTTE in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Empire Distributors NC CHARLOTTE averages 8.8 TCR (400% of the Warehouse & Distribution BLS benchmark).

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

Empire Distributors NC CHARLOTTE TCR series: 2016=14.9 · 2017=2.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Empire Distributors NC CHARLOTTE falls in its industry

735 Warehouse & Distribution establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 27 Warehouse & Distribution employers in North Carolina.

Empire Distributors NC CHARLOTTE (132 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 109 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Empire Distributors NC CHARLOTTE
Empire Distributors NC CHARLOTTE (132 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 109 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Empire Distributors NC CHARLOTTE has more employees than the Warehouse & Distribution median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2017 2.7 0.5 5 0 0
2016 14.9 1.6 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424820 · NC · Charlotte

735 Warehouse & Distribution 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 RM Beverage Delaware 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Specs # 090 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Try-It Distributing Co., Inc. 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Milton's Distributing Co. LLC 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Charlotte, NC Office 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE US150: Charlotte 260 - SG 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lenoir Site 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iron Horse Contractors 132 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 6400-Swy 0024 0069 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Eagle #3172 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR URP main office 1300 BHTL Rd 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Langdon Place of Dover 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE NAPP Lowell 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5472-Swy 0035 4205 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sales - Section 31 - Indianapolis, IN 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE Minneapolis (Mnbla) 132 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: 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.