Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers · North Carolina

Essendant: Charlotte OE

Charlotte, NC · ~131 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Essendant: Charlotte OE runs at 80% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Essendant: Charlotte OE: 1.8 TCR = 80% of Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Essendant: Charlotte OE safety composite

Essendant: Charlotte OE scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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

−0.6

2019→2024

Essendant: Charlotte OE injury rate improved

Essendant: Charlotte OE's TCR fell 0.6 from 2.3 in 2019 to 1.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=2.3 · 2020=1.4 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=2.5 · 2023=1.4 · 2024=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424120 · Charlotte, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 1.8 · 80% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK P80
  • PHOTO Essendant - Atlanta …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~131 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Essendant - Atlanta B E (0.1 TCR gap)

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Essendant: Charlotte OE in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Essendant: Charlotte OE averages 1.8 TCR (80% of the Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Essendant: Charlotte OE TCR series: 2019=2.3 · 2020=1.4 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=2.5 · 2023=1.4 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Essendant: Charlotte OE falls in its industry

87 Stationery supplies merchant w establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Essendant: Charlotte OE (131 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 05,00010,00015,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Essendant: Charlotte OE
Essendant: Charlotte OE (131 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Essendant: Charlotte OE has more employees than the Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2023 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2022 2.5 2.5 2 0 0
2021 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2020 1.4 1.4 3 0 0
2019 2.3 1.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424120 · NC · Charlotte

87 Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers 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 Essendant - Atlanta B E 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clover Technologies Group LLC - Depot Farmingdale 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flipside Products 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR SP Richards OKC 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Smith and Jennings Inc 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE Piedmont Maintenance and Services of Roxboro, Inc. 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berry Global MONC 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE Louisiana-Pacific Roaring River 131 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 Sodexo at Mk Westgate Cafe 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Nashville - BMD 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Calumet City Plumbing Company and Heating 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Frankfort Terminal 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 012m - Dallas Tx Rntl 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tennessee Health Management 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chattanooga TN FXFE-CHA 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thomas Cuisine @ CLOVIS HOSPITAL 131 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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