General Freight Trucking, long-distance, LTL · North Carolina

KNC-ODFL

Kernersville, NC · ~71 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

KNC-ODFL runs at 19% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General Freight Trucking, long-distance, LTL workplace, earning a grade A.

KNC-ODFL: 0.8 TCR = 19% of General Freight Trucking, long-distance, LTL BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KNC-ODFL safety composite

KNC-ODFL scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

KNC-ODFL: 0.0 → 1.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 1.7 TCR · DART/TCR 2.01× in 2022

KNC-ODFL's TCR rose 1.7 from 0.0 in 2021 to 1.7 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 2.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Kernersville, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 19% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #2/164
  • PHOTO JOP
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: JOP (0.0 TCR gap)

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KNC-ODFL in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows KNC-ODFL averages 0.8 TCR (19% of the General Freight Trucking, long-distance, LTL BLS benchmark).

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

KNC-ODFL TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=1.7 · BLS 4.5

Where KNC-ODFL falls in its industry

3,020 General Freight Trucking, long establishments

Safer than 98% 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 #2 safest of 164 General Freight Trucking, long employers in North Carolina.

KNC-ODFL (71 employees, TCR 0.8) 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 KNC-ODFL
KNC-ODFL (71 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

KNC-ODFL has more employees than the General Freight Trucking, long-distance, median and a lower 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
2022 1.7 1.7 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · NC · Kernersville

3,020 General Freight Trucking, long-distance, LTL employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 93 employers in Kernersville, 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 JOP 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR American West Worldwide Express 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Missoula Mt. 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR AAT-ODFL 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Charlotte Meter To Payment - PNG 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crawford Sprinkler Co of Raleigh 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE S&D Coffee & Tea West Winds 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE No Evil Foods LLC 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6458-GRNB 1,399 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - GSO1 968 FTE
CITY-NEAR 274 797 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Kernersville 782 FTE
NAT-TCR Ind School Dist 2144 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ellingson Companies 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Azacc - Phoenix Accounting 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Kollsman, Inc. 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE HG398 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Telegraph Road Facility 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE AC Hotel Portsmouth Downtown Waterfront 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE NGC - Rotan 71 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: 2022, 2021. 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.