Trucking, general freight, local · North Carolina

Special Service Freight Company of the Carolinas, Inc.

Charlotte, NC · ~122 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Special Service Freight Company of the Carolinas, Inc. runs at 247% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Trucking, general freight, local workplace, earning a grade F.

Special Service Freight Company of the Carolinas, Inc.: 11.1 TCR = 247% of Trucking, general freight, local BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Special Service Freight Company of the Carolinas, Inc. safety composite

Special Service Freight Company of the Carolinas, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

−193.8

2020→2022

Special Service Freight Company of the Carolinas, Inc. injury rate improved

Special Service Freight Company of the Carolinas, Inc.'s TCR fell 193.8 from 204.9 in 2020 to 11.1 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 204.9 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=204.9 · 2022=11.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Charlotte, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 11.1 · 247% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #85/89
  • PHOTO CF TRANSPORT
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~122 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CF TRANSPORT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Special Service Freight Company of the Carolinas, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Special Service Freight Company of the Carolinas, Inc. averages 11.1 TCR (247% of the Trucking, general freight, local BLS benchmark).

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

Special Service Freight Company of the Carolinas, Inc. TCR series: 2020=204.9 · 2022=11.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Special Service Freight Company of the Carolinas, Inc. falls in its industry

2,784 Trucking, general freight, loc establishments

Safer than 10% 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 #85 safest of 89 Trucking, general freight, loc employers in North Carolina.

Special Service Freight Company of the Carolinas, Inc. (122 employees, TCR 11.1) 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 Special Service Freight Company of the Carolinas, Inc.
Special Service Freight Company of the Carolinas, Inc. (122 employees, TCR 11.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Special Service Freight Company of the Carolinas, Inc. has more employees than the Trucking, general freight, local median and a higher 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
2022 11.1 5.5 12 0 0
2020 204.9 41.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · NC · Charlotte

2,784 Trucking, general freight, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 2,058 employers in Charlotte, 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 CF TRANSPORT 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atlantic Coast Trucking LLC 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR More Truck Lines 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Laurel Depot 11.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Operations 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Concord Water Services 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Utili-Serve LLC 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Granite Contracting LLC 122 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1101-Carolinas Medical Center (1101) 8,444 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0001-Carolinas Medical Center 8,032 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4795-AA-CLT-CHARLOTTE-CLT-TRML 7,295 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center 4,973 FTE
NAT-TCR 540435-Arl-Smokey Point Sta 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 286252-Perryville Po 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 269520-Waconia Po 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 246528-Rockport Po 11.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kauffman Engineering, LLC - CMB 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE Perma-Pipe PPDHC 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anderson Ford of St Joseph, LLC 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE Country Villa Mar Vista Nursing Center 122 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, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.