General Freight Trucking Long Distance Truckload · North Carolina

Innovative Driver Services Charlotte

Charlotte, NC · ~84 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Innovative Driver Services Charlotte runs at 34% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General Freight Trucking Long Distance Truckload workplace, earning a grade A.

Innovative Driver Services Charlotte: 1.5 TCR = 34% of General Freight Trucking Long Distance Truckload BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Innovative Driver Services Charlotte safety composite

Innovative Driver Services Charlotte scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Innovative Driver Services Charlotte: 1.0 → 2.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 2.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2019

Innovative Driver Services Charlotte's TCR rose 1.0 from 1.0 in 2018 to 2.0 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Charlotte, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 34% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #24/125
  • PHOTO Wahpeton Terminal
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wahpeton Terminal (0.0 TCR gap)

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Innovative Driver Services Charlotte in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Innovative Driver Services Charlotte averages 1.5 TCR (34% of the General Freight Trucking Long Distance Truckload BLS benchmark).

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

Innovative Driver Services Charlotte TCR series: 2018=1 · 2019=2 · BLS 4.5

Where Innovative Driver Services Charlotte falls in its industry

3,252 General Freight Trucking Long establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 125 General Freight Trucking Long employers in North Carolina.

Innovative Driver Services Charlotte (84 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Innovative Driver Services Charlotte
Innovative Driver Services Charlotte (84 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Innovative Driver Services Charlotte has more employees than the General Freight Trucking Long Distance median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2019 2.0 1.0 2 0 0
2018 1.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · NC · Charlotte

3,252 General Freight Trucking Long Distance Truckload 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 Wahpeton Terminal 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Olathe Terminal 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Buddy Moore Trucking Anderson, SC 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ruan Logistics Corp T134 RLC 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lark Maintenance Facility 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corp. Corporate Office 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Weaver Cooke Construction, LLC 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lendlease Charlotte 84 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 7000 W. 206th Street 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Blendco2017 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR NHRA 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Advanced Disposal - Albany Hauling 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Covanta Indianapolis, Inc. 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Admin Building 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Keolis Transportation 160- Lancaster 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advanced Disposal - Dubois Hauling 84 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: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.