General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) · North Carolina

HKY

Newton, NC · ~75 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HKY runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) workplace, earning a grade D.

HKY: 8.7 TCR = 192% of General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HKY safety composite

HKY scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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).

F

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

HKY: 4.9 → 12.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 12.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.17× in 2018

HKY's TCR rose 7.5 from 4.9 in 2017 to 12.4 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Newton, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.7 · 192% of ind

  • DART 10.2 DART
  • RANK #151/164
  • PHOTO Central Transport - …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~75 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Central Transport - 782 (0.0 TCR gap)

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HKY in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HKY averages 8.7 TCR (192% of the General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS benchmark).

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

HKY TCR series: 2017=4.9 · 2018=12.4 · BLS 4.5

Where HKY falls in its industry

3,020 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 22% 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 #151 safest of 164 General freight trucking, long employers in North Carolina.

HKY (75 employees, TCR 8.7) 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 HKY
HKY (75 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

HKY has more employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, median and a higher 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
2018 12.4 10.2 11 0 0
2017 4.9 2.5 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · NC · Newton

3,020 General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 83 employers in Newton, 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 Central Transport - 782 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABF Freight 231 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Boscawen Terminal 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR RA RALEIGH 8.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE FARM 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE AGRICULTURAL-FARMING 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electric Systems 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.R. Horton, Inc. - Raleigh South 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3811 - Newton NC DC 1,644 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3811 - Newton DC 1,303 FTE
CITY-NEAR GKN ePowertrain Newton 1,129 FTE
CITY-NEAR GKN Driveline Newton LLC 920 FTE
NAT-TCR Dealers Warehouse Corporation-Powell 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Arizona Water Company 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR SVC - Inn at the Park 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Greenville Parts Distribution Center 8.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Supervalu Distribution Center - Billings 32311 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE BioScrip Infusion Services, Inc. - 2305 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Senior Care of Midland 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE DIX 75 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. 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.