Courier Services Except by Air · North Carolina

Gastonia (Ncgas)

Gastonia, NC · ~116 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gastonia (Ncgas) runs at 83% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Courier Services Except by Air workplace, earning a grade C.

Gastonia (Ncgas): 5.4 TCR = 83% of Courier Services Except by Air BLS 6.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gastonia (Ncgas) safety composite

Gastonia (Ncgas) scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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)
C 5.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
B 2.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−5.0

2016→2018

Gastonia (Ncgas) injury rate improved

Gastonia (Ncgas)'s TCR fell 5.0 from 9.2 in 2016 to 4.2 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 9.2 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.2 · 2017=2.9 · 2018=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 492110 · Gastonia, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 5.4 · 83% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #73/214
  • PHOTO INFLD - PLAINFIELD
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~116 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: INFLD - PLAINFIELD (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gastonia (Ncgas) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gastonia (Ncgas) averages 5.4 TCR (83% of the Courier Services Except by Air BLS benchmark).

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

Gastonia (Ncgas) TCR series: 2016=9.2 · 2017=2.9 · 2018=4.2 · BLS 6.5

Where Gastonia (Ncgas) falls in its industry

6,679 Courier Services Except by Air establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #73 safest of 214 Courier Services Except by Air employers in North Carolina.

Gastonia (Ncgas) (116 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Gastonia (Ncgas)
Gastonia (Ncgas) (116 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0

Gastonia (Ncgas) has more employees than the Courier Services Except by Air median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.0. 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
2018 4.2 2.8 3 0 0
2017 2.9 2.9 2 0 0
2016 9.2 9.2 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

492110 · NC · Gastonia

6,679 Courier Services Except by Air employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 182 employers in Gastonia, 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 INFLD - PLAINFIELD 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR GASAW - KENNESAW 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR FedEx 5101 W WATERS 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR FedEx 1170 E VENTURE DR 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Carolina Egg Companies 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE CE Holt Refrigeration 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newton Container 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4301 Waterleaf 116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston Memorial Hospital, Incorporated d/b/a CaroMont Regional Medical Center 3,156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston County Government 1,711 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wix Allen Plant 931 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gastonia Components and Logistics - Tulip 912 FTE
NAT-TCR Philadelphia Air Hub (Papha) 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Paris (Tnpar) 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 4 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Bieker Electric, Inc. 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE CC019 - Snohomish Office 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heritage Health - Danville 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE Widmer Bros Brewery and Brewpub 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE Medford Wellington Service Co., Inc. 116 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.