DCC · North Carolina

Penske : 4720-00 Cardinal/Durham, NC

Durham, NC · ~24 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Penske : 4720-00 Cardinal/Durham, NC runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical DCC workplace, earning a grade B.

Penske : 4720-00 Cardinal/Durham, NC: 2.8 TCR = 62% of DCC BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Penske : 4720-00 Cardinal/Durham, NC safety composite

Penske : 4720-00 Cardinal/Durham, NC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.1

2016→2018

Penske : 4720-00 Cardinal/Durham, NC injury rate improved

Penske : 4720-00 Cardinal/Durham, NC's TCR fell 4.1 from 4.1 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.3 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.1 · 2017=4.3 · 2018=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Durham, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.8 · 62% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #31/89
  • PHOTO Ft. Worth DSD
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ft. Worth DSD (0.0 TCR gap)

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Penske : 4720-00 Cardinal/Durham, NC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Penske : 4720-00 Cardinal/Durham, NC averages 2.8 TCR (62% of the DCC BLS benchmark).

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

Penske : 4720-00 Cardinal/Durham, NC TCR series: 2016=4.1 · 2017=4.3 · 2018=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Penske : 4720-00 Cardinal/Durham, NC falls in its industry

2,784 DCC establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 89 DCC employers in North Carolina.

Penske : 4720-00 Cardinal/Durham, NC (24 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Penske : 4720-00 Cardinal/Durham, NC
Penske : 4720-00 Cardinal/Durham, NC (24 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Penske : 4720-00 Cardinal/Durham, NC has fewer employees than the DCC median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 4.3 4.3 1 0 0
2016 4.1 4.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · NC · Durham

2,784 DCC employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 530 employers in Durham, 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 Ft. Worth DSD 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marathon Cheese Transport 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR North Augusta 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Morrell & Morrell LP 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Open Grounds Farm, Inc. 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Super-Sod Charlotte 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holland Farms, Inc 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE CENTRAL LNM-EST 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Duke University 23,871 FTE
CITY-NEAR Duke University Hospital 11,048 FTE
CITY-NEAR BCBSNC Telecommuters 3,033 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wolfspeed - Durham, NC 3,013 FTE
NAT-TCR 2364 Shoppers-Seven Corners (Sv 0520 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Grand Rapids Carton 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Herb Chambers 1-95 Inc 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Waterloo Works Drive Train Operations 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nokomis Flour Mill 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Penske : 5079-00 Accuride-DCM/Batavia, IL 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE C and J Auto Parts Inc. 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hovnanian Senior Housing Services, Inc. 24 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.