Motor freight carrier, general,long-distance, truckload(TL) · North Carolina

Newton HKY

Newton, NC · ~35 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Newton HKY runs at 49% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Motor freight carrier, general,long-distance, truckload(TL) workplace, earning a grade A.

Newton HKY: 2.2 TCR = 49% of Motor freight carrier, general,long-distance, truckload(TL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Newton HKY safety composite

Newton HKY scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

Newton HKY: 0.0 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 3× in 2018

Newton HKY's TCR rose 6.7 from 0.0 in 2016 to 6.7 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 2.2 · 49% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK #41/125
  • PHOTO VA-Richmond
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: VA-Richmond (0.0 TCR gap)

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Newton HKY in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Newton HKY averages 2.2 TCR (49% of the Motor freight carrier, general,long-distance, truckload(TL) BLS benchmark).

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

Newton HKY TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=6.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Newton HKY falls in its industry

3,252 Motor freight carrier, g establishments

Safer than 66% 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 #41 safest of 125 Motor freight carrier, g employers in North Carolina.

Newton HKY (35 employees, TCR 2.2) 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 Newton HKY
Newton HKY (35 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Newton HKY has fewer employees than the Motor freight carrier, general,lon 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
2018 6.7 6.7 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · NC · Newton

3,252 Motor freight carrier, general,long-distance, truckload(TL) 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 VA-Richmond 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Knight Refrigerated Arizona 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABCO Transporation, Inc. - OCF 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Intransit Container LLC 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Boykin Farms, Inc. 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE NEW COLONY SOW FARM 6276 -EST 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Goldsboro Field Services 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Butterball LLC Hatchery # 2 35 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 Webb Construction 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR FirstLight Power Resources - Northfield Mountain/NERC 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Shopko Hometown #633 (Park Falls, WI) 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Myersville04 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Morris Yachts, LLC 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE KTL 53028 Newton 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Charlottesville-Bldg Maint 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Steel Inc. 35 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, 2016. 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.