Motor vehicle merchant wholesalers · North Carolina

Vanguard Truck Center Conover

Conover, NC · ~23 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vanguard Truck Center Conover runs at 249% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Motor vehicle merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Vanguard Truck Center Conover: 5.5 TCR = 249% of Motor vehicle merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vanguard Truck Center Conover safety composite

Vanguard Truck Center Conover scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Vanguard Truck Center Conover: 0.0 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 13.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Vanguard Truck Center Conover's TCR rose 4.0 from 0.0 in 2021 to 4.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 13.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 5.5 · 249% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #23/33
  • PHOTO Vanguard-Phoenix
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Vanguard-Phoenix (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vanguard Truck Center Conover in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vanguard Truck Center Conover averages 5.5 TCR (249% of the Motor vehicle merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Vanguard Truck Center Conover TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=4.6 · 2023=13.3 · 2024=4 · BLS 2.2

Where Vanguard Truck Center Conover falls in its industry

1,333 Motor vehicle merchant wholesa establishments

Safer than 33% 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 #23 safest of 33 Motor vehicle merchant wholesa employers in North Carolina.

Vanguard Truck Center Conover (23 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 Vanguard Truck Center Conover
Vanguard Truck Center Conover (23 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Vanguard Truck Center Conover has fewer employees than the Motor vehicle merchant wholesalers 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
2024 4.0 0.0 1 0 0
2023 13.3 8.8 3 0 0
2022 4.6 4.6 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423110 · NC · Conover

1,333 Motor vehicle merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 95 employers in Conover, 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 Vanguard-Phoenix 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0574 MANHEIM KEYSTONE 488 FIREHOUSE RD 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR ADESA Phoenix 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stoops Freightliner TC - Wayne 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farm 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE SOUTHERN PINES 1 SOW -EST 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cotton Gin 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monroe Growout 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Zenith - Conover 409 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 4224 369 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4224 327 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2510 Conover Folding 309 FTE
NAT-TCR LAZ Parking California, LLC 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR The Olde Mill Inn & Grain House Restaurant 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Little Mountain Precision LLC - Tyler Plant 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR JCB Flavors LLC 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Blackhawk Transport James Hardie Va 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kamco Supply - Danbury, CT 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hazel Hills 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Green View Nursery Inc. 23 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, 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.