General freight trucking, local · North Carolina

HDS-Lexington

Lexington, NC · ~27 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HDS-Lexington runs at 23% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General freight trucking, local workplace, earning a grade A.

HDS-Lexington: 1.0 TCR = 23% of General freight trucking, local BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HDS-Lexington safety composite

HDS-Lexington scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% 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).

B

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

−1.8

2016→2020

HDS-Lexington injury rate improved

HDS-Lexington's TCR fell 1.8 from 1.8 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 2.3 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.8 · 2018=2.3 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Lexington, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 23% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #11/89
  • PHOTO Bell & Lowe LLC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bell & Lowe LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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HDS-Lexington in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HDS-Lexington averages 1.0 TCR (23% of the General freight trucking, local BLS benchmark).

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

HDS-Lexington TCR series: 2016=1.8 · 2018=2.3 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · BLS 4.5

Where HDS-Lexington falls in its industry

2,784 General freight trucking, loca establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 89 General freight trucking, loca employers in North Carolina.

HDS-Lexington (27 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate HDS-Lexington
HDS-Lexington (27 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

HDS-Lexington has fewer employees than the General freight trucking, local median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2016 1.8 1.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · NC · Lexington

2,784 General freight trucking, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 120 employers in Lexington, 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 Bell & Lowe LLC 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR HILLTRUX TANK LINES INC 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cedar Hill Terminal 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR HDS-Indy 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bissette Farms, Inc 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hyde County Pullet Farm 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hyde County Pullet 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Price Logging Inc 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Davidson County Schools 3,351 FTE
CITY-NEAR Davidson County Government 1,237 FTE
CITY-NEAR Atrium Windows & Door 910 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASCO Power Technologies 639 FTE
NAT-TCR A.W. Farrell & Son, Inc. - Cleveland Office 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR AK Tube LLC - Columbus 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR DGS Aviation Services : PSP - Palm Springs 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Pelham, AL CS Office 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Roses 343 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0000000068 Quickchek Food Stores 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE South Central Power Co. Canal Winchester 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE South Aurora SA 27 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.