General freight trucking, local · North Carolina

Zenith HD - Conover

Name: Zenith HD - Conover Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Conover, NC · ~73 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 11.5
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Zenith HD - Conover runs at 256% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, local workplace, earning a grade F.

Zenith HD - Conover: 11.5 TCR = 256% of General freight trucking, local BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Zenith HD - Conover safety composite

Zenith HD - Conover scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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).

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 11.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers
DART rate: F 8.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

Zenith HD - Conover: 7.5 → 16.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 16.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.78× in 2018

Zenith HD - Conover's TCR rose 8.6 from 7.5 in 2016 to 16.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Conover, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.5 · 256% of ind

DART 8.9 DART
RANK #86/89
PHOTO HDS-Zanesville
BOOK 3y book
INJ 24 inj
SIZE ~73 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HDS-Zanesville (0.0 TCR gap)

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HDS-Berkeley

11.6
DES MOINES (IA

11.6
This site

11.5
HDS-Zanesville

11.5
NYBSH - FARMIN

11.5

What this shows Zenith HD - Conover averages 11.5 TCR (256% of the General freight trucking, local BLS benchmark).

Zenith HD - Conover TCR series: 2016=7.5 · 2017=11 · 2018=16.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Zenith HD - Conover falls in its industry

2,784 General freight trucking, loca establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #86 safest of 89 General freight trucking, loca employers in North Carolina.

Zenith HD - Conover (73 employees, TCR 11.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Zenith HD - Conover has more employees than the General freight trucking, local median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2018	16.1	8.9	9
2017	11.0	6.1	9
2016	7.5	2.5	6

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · NC · Conover

2,784 General freight trucking, local 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	HDS-Zanesville	ZANESVILLE, OH	11.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	NYBSH - FARMINGDALE	BAY SHORE, NY	11.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	HDS-Berkeley	BERKELEY, MO	11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	DES MOINES (IADME)	DES MOINES, IA	11.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Tri-State Turf of NC	NEWTON GROVE	73 FTE
STATE-SIZE	REC	AULANDER	73 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Haywood EMC-Combined Districts	WAYNESVILLE	73 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Public Utilities	ASHEBORO	73 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Zenith - Conover	Conover	409 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 4224	Conover	369 FTE
CITY-NEAR	4224	Conover	327 FTE
CITY-NEAR	2510 Conover Folding	Conover	309 FTE
NAT-TCR	Atrium Post Acute Care of Stevens Point	Stevens Point, WI	11.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	B & T Shavings, Inc.	Jasper, AL	11.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Peapod S&S East Hartford, Ct	East Hartford, CT	11.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	SYR-SYRACUSE	Syracuse, NY	11.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Fruita Consumers' Cooperative Association	Fruita, CO	73 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Brookdale Castleton	Indianapolis, IN	73 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Integrated Physicians Managments Services, Inc.	East Hartford, CT	73 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Scherrer Construction Co., INC	Burlington, WI	73 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.