Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers · North Carolina

Piedmont Cheerwine Bottling Company Colfax NC

Colfax, NC · ~85 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Piedmont Cheerwine Bottling Company Colfax NC runs at 338% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Piedmont Cheerwine Bottling Company Colfax NC: 7.4 TCR = 338% of Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Piedmont Cheerwine Bottling Company Colfax NC safety composite

Piedmont Cheerwine Bottling Company Colfax NC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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

Piedmont Cheerwine Bottling Company Colfax NC: 3.5 → 10.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 10.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.65× in 2022

Piedmont Cheerwine Bottling Company Colfax NC's TCR rose 7.4 from 3.5 in 2017 to 10.9 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Colfax, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.4 · 338% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #42/54
  • PHOTO 3J US Food Bismarck
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~85 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 3J US Food Bismarck (0.0 TCR gap)

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Piedmont Cheerwine Bottling Company Colfax NC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Piedmont Cheerwine Bottling Company Colfax NC averages 7.4 TCR (338% of the Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Piedmont Cheerwine Bottling Company Colfax NC TCR series: 2017=3.5 · 2021=7.9 · 2022=10.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Piedmont Cheerwine Bottling Company Colfax NC falls in its industry

1,651 Groceries, general-line, merch establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #42 safest of 54 Groceries, general-line, merch employers in North Carolina.

Piedmont Cheerwine Bottling Company Colfax NC (85 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Piedmont Cheerwine Bottling Company Colfax NC
Piedmont Cheerwine Bottling Company Colfax NC (85 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Piedmont Cheerwine Bottling Company Colfax NC has fewer employees than the Groceries, general-line, merchant wholes median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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 10.9 4.8 9 0 0
2021 7.9 7.9 6 0 0
2017 3.5 3.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · NC · Colfax

1,651 Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 29 employers in Colfax, 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 3J US Food Bismarck 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Core-Mark Las Vegas 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR US Foods Lubbock 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eby-Brown Indianapolis 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Aptus Group USA LLC 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sealand South 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE carl Rose Paving 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Romanoff Electric Residential - Charlotte 85 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverlanding 510 FTE
CITY-NEAR River Landing at Sandy Ridge 440 FTE
CITY-NEAR Phillips Corporation - Commercial Division 170 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foster-Caviness Company Inc 161 FTE
NAT-TCR Bed Bath and Beyond Roseville MN 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Bed Bath and Beyond Murrieta 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Flick Lumber Co. 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 0488 - Mission Valley Ca Whse 7.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Samford Univ-Janitorial 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Saginaw Terminal 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reliable Installation Services 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bed Bath and Beyond Elmsford 85 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, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.