Cold storage warehousing · North Carolina

Tar Heel Distribution Center

Tar Heel, NC · ~351 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tar Heel Distribution Center runs at 19% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Cold storage warehousing workplace, earning a grade A.

Tar Heel Distribution Center: 1.1 TCR = 19% of Cold storage warehousing BLS 5.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tar Heel Distribution Center safety composite

Tar Heel Distribution Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

Tar Heel Distribution Center: 0.8 → 1.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.62× in 2024

Tar Heel Distribution Center's TCR rose 0.5 from 0.8 in 2022 to 1.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493120 · Tar Heel, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 19% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #6/29
  • PHOTO Cloverleaf Cold Stor…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~351 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cloverleaf Cold Storage-Lemars (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tar Heel Distribution Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tar Heel Distribution Center averages 1.1 TCR (19% of the Cold storage warehousing BLS benchmark).

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

Tar Heel Distribution Center TCR series: 2022=0.8 · 2024=1.3 · BLS 5.8

Where Tar Heel Distribution Center falls in its industry

1,039 Cold storage warehousing establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 29 Cold storage warehousing employers in North Carolina.

Tar Heel Distribution Center (351 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Tar Heel Distribution Center
Tar Heel Distribution Center (351 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Tar Heel Distribution Center has more employees than the Cold storage warehousing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2024 1.3 0.7 4 0 0
2022 0.8 0.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493120 · NC · Tar Heel

1,039 Cold storage warehousing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 11 employers in Tar Heel, 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 Cloverleaf Cold Storage-Lemars 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABW 2500 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR WM 6082 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vernon-Bandini-PRW 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE DOT-Transportation 351 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coats American, Inc. 351 FTE
STATE-SIZE RPM Wood Finishes Group, Inc., Hudson, NC 351 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wieland Copper Products LLC 351 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tar Heel Fresh 4,593 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp. 3,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR PSSI - 0238 Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp. - Tar Heel 245 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dedicated - Tar Heel Shop and Office 229 FTE
NAT-TCR Platinum Specialty Services Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR d-7 Roofing LLC - Phoenix 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR TMX2471 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR PLZ Corp Distribution Warehouse 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE NY_College Point_109-15 14th Ave_44000100 351 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Central Transport, Inc. 351 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alliance Steel 351 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wisconsin Aluminum Foundry 351 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, 2022. 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.