Quality Custom Distribution - Charlotte
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PINEVILLE, NC | Refrigerated products trucking, local
~224 avg employees | 7 years of OSHA data
Quality Custom Distribution - Charlotte has an average TCR of 7.0, which is 155% of the industry average (4.5) for Refrigerated products trucking, local. This is worse than average.
Safety Insights for Quality Custom Distribution - Charlotte
Quality Custom Distribution - Charlotte operates an establishment with approximately 224 full-time equivalent workers in PINEVILLE, NC, classified under the Refrigerated products trucking, local industry (NAICS 484220). Across 7 years of mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reporting, this employer has accumulated 119 recordable injuries, 1 occupational illnesses, and 0 workplace fatalities. The average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 7.0 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year provides the anchor metric for the D letter grade (Poor Safety Record).
Benchmarked against the Bureau of Labor Statistics industry average of 4.5 for Refrigerated products trucking, local, Quality Custom Distribution - Charlotte's workforce experiences 155% of the typical injury burden. This ratio matters because TCR already normalizes for hours worked — a 200,000-hour exposure base equals roughly 100 full-time workers — so establishments with very different headcounts can be compared directly. A TCR above the benchmark flags a higher-than-typical risk profile for jobseekers, insurers, and enforcement agencies to examine.
Multi-year trend analysis is the single most reliable signal here: a one-year spike could reflect a single severe event, whereas sustained elevation across 7 reporting cycles points to systemic hazard exposure. Readers evaluating Quality Custom Distribution - Charlotte as an employer, contractor, investment, or regulatory target should examine the yearly DART rate (days away, restricted, or transferred), the fatality count of 0, and any year-over-year deterioration shown in the table below. All figures come directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries — there is no modeling, estimation, or third-party adjustment layered on top of the government data.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
All injury, illness, and fatality figures on this page are sourced from Quality Custom Distribution - Charlotte's own mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source — name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor — OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 484220 — Refrigerated products trucking, local.
DART Rate — Transparent Calculation (2024)
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
2 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 351,450 hours worked = 1.14 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904 — OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context — Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Quality Custom Distribution - Charlotte (this establishment) | 6.99 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 7-year avg |
| Grain hauling, local industry avg | 4.50 | BLS IIF, NAICS 484220 |
| North Carolina state avg (all industries) | 25.67 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics — Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Quality Custom Distribution - Charlotte to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2024: 2 reportable incidents · 2 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2021: 13 reportable incidents · 12 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2020: 17 reportable incidents · 17 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2019: 23 reportable incidents · 23 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 27 reportable incidents · 27 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2017: 24 reportable incidents · 24 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2016: 14 reportable incidents · 14 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) — inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 5.6 | 3.9 | 12 | 1 | 0 |
| 2020 | 7.3 | 5.5 | 17 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 9.1 | 9.1 | 23 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 11.1 | 10.6 | 27 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 9.3 | 8.9 | 24 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 5.6 | 5.6 | 14 | 0 | 0 |
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