Truck tractors, road, merchant wholesalers · North Carolina

TranSource Hickory

Newton, NC · ~19 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

TranSource Hickory runs at 194% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Truck tractors, road, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

TranSource Hickory: 4.3 TCR = 194% of Truck tractors, road, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

TranSource Hickory safety composite

TranSource Hickory scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−6.9

2017→2020

TranSource Hickory injury rate improved

TranSource Hickory's TCR fell 6.9 from 12.0 in 2017 to 5.1 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 12.0 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=12.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=5.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423110 · Newton, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 194% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #14/33
  • PHOTO G L SAYRE INC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: G L SAYRE INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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TranSource Hickory in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows TranSource Hickory averages 4.3 TCR (194% of the Truck tractors, road, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

TranSource Hickory TCR series: 2017=12 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=5.1 · BLS 2.2

Where TranSource Hickory falls in its industry

1,333 Truck tractors, road, merchant establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 33 Truck tractors, road, merchant employers in North Carolina.

TranSource Hickory (19 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate TranSource Hickory
TranSource Hickory (19 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.3

TranSource Hickory has fewer employees than the Truck tractors, road, merchant wholesale median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2020 5.1 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 12.0 6.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423110 · NC · Newton

1,333 Truck tractors, road, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 83 employers in Newton, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR G L SAYRE INC 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Truck Sales Toledo 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3202 JB HUNT 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wolfington Body Company Inc. - Uwchland PA 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Turf Today Inc. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE A And A Farms, Inc. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buy Sod USA - Leggett Sod Farm 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Custom Shutters, INC 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3811 - Newton NC DC 1,644 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3811 - Newton DC 1,303 FTE
CITY-NEAR GKN ePowertrain Newton 1,129 FTE
CITY-NEAR GKN Driveline Newton LLC 920 FTE
NAT-TCR Residence Inn Provo South University 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Food Source 702-Sacramento 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Port City Brewing Co 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Syracuse Store - 01 4.3 TCR

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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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