Employer · North Carolina

Tar Heel - PRW

Tar Heel, NC · ~143 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tar Heel - PRW runs at 71% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade B.

Tar Heel - PRW: 4.1 TCR = 71% of industry BLS 5.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tar Heel - PRW safety composite

Tar Heel - PRW scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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 - PRW: 2.7 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 5.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.04× in 2017

Tar Heel - PRW's TCR rose 2.7 from 2.7 in 2016 to 5.5 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.04× 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 B · TCR 4.1 · 71% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #19/29
  • PHOTO 580 - Newport DF
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~143 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 580 - Newport DF (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tar Heel - PRW in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tar Heel - PRW averages 4.1 TCR (71% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Tar Heel - PRW TCR series: 2016=2.7 · 2017=5.5 · BLS 5.8

Where Tar Heel - PRW falls in its industry

1,039 industry establishments

Safer than 48% 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 #19 safest of 29 industry employers in North Carolina.

Tar Heel - PRW (143 employees, TCR 4.1) 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 - PRW
Tar Heel - PRW (143 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Tar Heel - PRW has more employees than the industry median and a higher 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
2017 5.5 4.3 9 0 0
2016 2.7 2.7 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493120 · NC · Tar Heel

1,039 industry 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 580 - Newport DF 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Reddy Ice - Orlando (442) 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chicago-Geneva-PRW 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Montgomery DC, Fresh 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Elkin 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pike Kentucky Statewide Operations 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bernhard MCC L.L.C. CNC 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE prestige farms 143 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tar Heel Fresh 4,593 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp. 3,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tar Heel Distribution Center 351 FTE
CITY-NEAR PSSI - 0238 Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp. - Tar Heel 245 FTE
NAT-TCR Riverport 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Batavia - Aldi 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Bayamon Center (Prtbj) 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Mira Loma Operations (Camrl) 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE N and R of Springfield West LLC 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Herndon Farms 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bombardier Transportation - Baltimore - MARC 143 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: 2017, 2016. 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.