Linen supply services · North Carolina

Tarheel Linen Service Inc.

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

F
Failing Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tarheel Linen Service Inc. runs at 216% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Linen supply services workplace, earning a grade F.

Tarheel Linen Service Inc.: 4.5 TCR = 216% of Linen supply services BLS 2.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tarheel Linen Service Inc. safety composite

Tarheel Linen Service Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% 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%).

TCR Δ

−9.1

2019→2021

Tarheel Linen Service Inc. injury rate improved

Tarheel Linen Service Inc.'s TCR fell 9.1 from 9.1 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 76.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=9.1 · 2020=76.5 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 812331 · Durham, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.5 · 216% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/10
  • PHOTO Unitex 10A
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Unitex 10A (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tarheel Linen Service Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tarheel Linen Service Inc. averages 4.5 TCR (216% of the Linen supply services BLS benchmark).

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

Tarheel Linen Service Inc. TCR series: 2019=9.1 · 2020=76.5 · 2021=0 · BLS 2.1

Where Tarheel Linen Service Inc. falls in its industry

334 Linen supply services establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

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 10 Linen supply services employers in North Carolina.

Tarheel Linen Service Inc. (39 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 0100200300400 024681012 Average employees Total Case Rate Tarheel Linen Service Inc.
Tarheel Linen Service Inc. (39 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Tarheel Linen Service Inc. has fewer employees than the Linen supply services median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 76.5 38.2 2 0 0
2019 9.1 0.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

812331 · NC · Durham

334 Linen supply services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 530 employers in Durham, 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 Unitex 10A 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corporate 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Angelica - Phoenix 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Angelica - Orange 4.5 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 Duke University 23,871 FTE
CITY-NEAR Duke University Hospital 11,048 FTE
CITY-NEAR BCBSNC Telecommuters 3,033 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wolfspeed - Durham, NC 3,013 FTE
NAT-TCR Kamps Louisville 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 99 Ranch Market, #61 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Byesville Sheet 6965 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Harris Rebar Nufab - Birmingham Alabama 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lehigh Valley Branch 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE WHH-Horse Hollow 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arden 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oishii Farm Corporation 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.