Couriers and Express Delivery Services · North Carolina

Ncgas - Gastonia

Gastonia, NC · ~115 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
10.5
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ncgas - Gastonia runs at 161% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Couriers and Express Delivery Services workplace, earning a grade D.

Ncgas - Gastonia: 10.5 TCR = 161% of Couriers and Express Delivery Services BLS 6.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ncgas - Gastonia safety composite

Ncgas - Gastonia scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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).

D

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Ncgas - Gastonia: 5.5 → 11.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 18.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.84× in 2024

Ncgas - Gastonia's TCR rose 6.2 from 5.5 in 2019 to 11.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 18.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 492110 · Gastonia, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 10.5 · 161% of ind

  • DART 8.8 DART
  • RANK #166/214
  • PHOTO MOSED - SEDALIA
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 45 inj
  • SIZE ~115 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MOSED - SEDALIA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ncgas - Gastonia in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ncgas - Gastonia averages 10.5 TCR (161% of the Couriers and Express Delivery Services BLS benchmark).

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

Ncgas - Gastonia TCR series: 2019=5.5 · 2020=12.3 · 2021=18.8 · 2022=9.1 · 2023=5.5 · 2024=11.7 · BLS 6.5

Where Ncgas - Gastonia falls in its industry

6,679 Couriers and Express Delivery establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #166 safest of 214 Couriers and Express Delivery employers in North Carolina.

Ncgas - Gastonia (115 employees, TCR 10.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Ncgas - Gastonia
Ncgas - Gastonia (115 employees, TCR 10.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0

Ncgas - Gastonia has more employees than the Couriers and Express Delivery Services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.0. 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
2024 11.7 8.8 7 1 0
2023 5.5 5.5 3 1 0
2022 9.1 7.8 7 0 0
2021 18.8 13.4 14 0 0
2020 12.3 8.6 10 0 0
2019 5.5 5.5 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

492110 · NC · Gastonia

6,679 Couriers and Express Delivery Services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 182 employers in Gastonia, 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 MOSED - SEDALIA 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR FedEx 210 INDUSTRIAL WAY W 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR HARRISBURG AIR RELIEF (PAMTL) 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR HHH 10.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Brunswick Electric Membership Corp. Supply District 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE County of Harnett-Harnett Regional Water 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heavy Highway 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Comfort Mechanical Contractors, Inc. 115 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston Memorial Hospital, Incorporated d/b/a CaroMont Regional Medical Center 3,156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston County Government 1,711 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wix Allen Plant 931 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gastonia Components and Logistics - Tulip 912 FTE
NAT-TCR Mosed - Sedalia 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Art's Way Scientific, Inc. 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Haskell Care Center 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR MOM's Organic Market - Jessup 10.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Canap - Napa Center 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mapit - Pittsfield 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Iaspe - Spencer 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mscol - Columbus 115 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.