DAIRY DISTRIBUTION · North Carolina

Suiza - Charlotte - The Plaza

Charlotte, NC · ~44 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Suiza - Charlotte - The Plaza runs at 361% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical DAIRY DISTRIBUTION workplace, earning a grade F.

Suiza - Charlotte - The Plaza: 7.9 TCR = 361% of DAIRY DISTRIBUTION BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Suiza - Charlotte - The Plaza safety composite

Suiza - Charlotte - The Plaza scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

Suiza - Charlotte - The Plaza: 5.2 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 10.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.75× in 2019

Suiza - Charlotte - The Plaza's TCR rose 2.8 from 5.2 in 2017 to 8.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 10.7 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424430 · Charlotte, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.9 · 361% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #7/7
  • PHOTO Creamery
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Creamery (0.0 TCR gap)

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Suiza - Charlotte - The Plaza in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Suiza - Charlotte - The Plaza averages 7.9 TCR (361% of the DAIRY DISTRIBUTION BLS benchmark).

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

Suiza - Charlotte - The Plaza TCR series: 2017=5.2 · 2018=10.7 · 2019=8 · BLS 2.2

Where Suiza - Charlotte - The Plaza falls in its industry

231 DAIRY DISTRIBUTION establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 7 DAIRY DISTRIBUTION employers in North Carolina.

Suiza - Charlotte - The Plaza (44 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.9 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Suiza - Charlotte - The Plaza
Suiza - Charlotte - The Plaza (44 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Suiza - Charlotte - The Plaza has fewer employees than the DAIRY DISTRIBUTION median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.9. 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
2019 8.0 6.0 4 0 0
2018 10.7 10.7 6 0 0
2017 5.2 5.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424430 · NC · Charlotte

231 DAIRY DISTRIBUTION 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 Creamery 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR East side Jersey Dairy - Sioux Falls Distribution 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Deli Source 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schenck Foods 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sleepy Creek Farms 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE ALBEMARLE WMSTN 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Morganton 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aqua Services, Inc. - Cary 44 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 Glass Plant 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Holiday Inn Taunton 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Dallas DFW 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Snyders-Lance, Inc 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lehigh Schkl Hvn - Schuylkill Haven - DTI 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Malone University Regula Cafe (Canton)** 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE J.D. Heiskell & Co. Elkhorn NE 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Foamcraft Inc. Indy 44 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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