Commercial stationery supplies merchant wholesalers · North Carolina

S.P. Richards Co.

Concord, NC · ~39 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

S.P. Richards Co. runs at 208% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Commercial stationery supplies merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

S.P. Richards Co.: 4.6 TCR = 208% of Commercial stationery supplies merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

S.P. Richards Co. safety composite

S.P. Richards Co. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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).

F

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

S.P. Richards Co.: 3.1 → 10.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.75× in 2024

S.P. Richards Co.'s TCR rose 7.6 from 3.1 in 2020 to 10.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424120 · Concord, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.6 · 208% of ind

  • DART 8.0 DART
  • RANK P26
  • PHOTO Essendant: Kansas Ci…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Essendant: Kansas City OE (0.0 TCR gap)

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S.P. Richards Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows S.P. Richards Co. averages 4.6 TCR (208% of the Commercial stationery supplies merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

S.P. Richards Co. TCR series: 2020=3.1 · 2023=0 · 2024=10.7 · BLS 2.2

Where S.P. Richards Co. falls in its industry

87 Commercial stationery supplies establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
S.P. Richards Co. (39 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 05,00010,00015,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate S.P. Richards Co.
S.P. Richards Co. (39 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 3.3

S.P. Richards Co. has fewer employees than the Commercial stationery supplies merchant median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 10.7 8.0 4 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 3.1 1.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424120 · NC · Concord

87 Commercial stationery supplies merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 338 employers in Concord, 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 Essendant: Kansas City OE 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Essendant Cranbury OE 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Essendant: Nashville OE 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR SP Richards 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Taylor's Nursery-Louisburg 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE B & S Farming, Inc. 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jeffery C Lee Farms, INC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sullivan Farms Inc. 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1114-Atrium Health Cabarrus (1114) 3,087 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0070-CHS NorthEast 2,949 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0070-Atrium Health Cabarrus 2,870 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CLT3 1,263 FTE
NAT-TCR 9Wood Inc 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 44f - Alexandria Rental 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR McLaren Thumb Region 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Nicolet Plastics 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Servco Builders 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Isabel Bloom 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manson Roofing, Inc 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ag Processing Inc. Manning 39 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, 2020. 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.