Bulk mail truck transportation, contract, long-distance (TL) · North Carolina

NC-Advance

Advance, NC · ~116 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

NC-Advance runs at 186% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bulk mail truck transportation, contract, long-distance (TL) workplace, earning a grade D.

NC-Advance: 8.4 TCR = 186% of Bulk mail truck transportation, contract, long-distance (TL) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NC-Advance safety composite

NC-Advance scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

NC-Advance: 5.0 → 11.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 11.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.29× in 2018

NC-Advance's TCR rose 6.6 from 5.0 in 2016 to 11.7 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Advance, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.4 · 186% of ind

  • DART 10.8 DART
  • RANK #120/125
  • PHOTO MCI LTL
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~116 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MCI LTL (0.0 TCR gap)

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NC-Advance in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows NC-Advance averages 8.4 TCR (186% of the Bulk mail truck transportation, contract, long-distance (TL) BLS benchmark).

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

NC-Advance TCR series: 2016=5 · 2018=11.7 · BLS 4.5

Where NC-Advance falls in its industry

3,252 Bulk mail truck transportation establishments

Safer than 8% 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 #120 safest of 125 Bulk mail truck transportation employers in North Carolina.

NC-Advance (116 employees, TCR 8.4) 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 NC-Advance
NC-Advance (116 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

NC-Advance has more employees than the Bulk mail truck transportation, contract median and a higher 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
2018 11.7 10.8 27 0 0
2016 5.0 3.9 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · NC · Advance

3,252 Bulk mail truck transportation, contract, long-distance (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 18 employers in Advance, 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 MCI LTL 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maverick Grand Prairie, TX 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ronald Gross, Inc. 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heartland Express Rancho Cucamonga 8.4 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 Ashley Furniture Industries - Advance 1,519 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advance NC Facility 1,504 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ashley Furniture Industries Inc 1,358 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ashley Distribution Services, Ltd. - North Carolina 182 FTE
NAT-TCR Life Care Center of Camellia Gardens 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR TI Group Automotive, LLC 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Siouxland Paramedics, Inc. 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR TrueNorth Steel 8.4 TCR
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
NAT-SIZE Covestro Salisbury Road 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, 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.