Freight Trucking LTL · Connecticut

145 Middletown

Cheshire, CT · ~85 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

145 Middletown runs at 322% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Freight Trucking LTL workplace, earning a grade F.

145 Middletown: 14.5 TCR = 322% of Freight Trucking LTL BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

145 Middletown safety composite

145 Middletown scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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).

F

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

145 Middletown: 13.3 → 15.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 15.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2018

145 Middletown's TCR rose 2.4 from 13.3 in 2016 to 15.7 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Cheshire, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.5 · 322% of ind

  • DART 9.7 DART
  • RANK #20/24
  • PHOTO OCA
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~85 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: OCA (0.0 TCR gap)

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145 Middletown in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 145 Middletown averages 14.5 TCR (322% of the Freight Trucking LTL BLS benchmark).

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

145 Middletown TCR series: 2016=13.3 · 2018=15.7 · BLS 4.5

Where 145 Middletown falls in its industry

3,020 Freight Trucking LTL establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 24 Freight Trucking LTL employers in Connecticut.

145 Middletown (85 employees, TCR 14.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate 145 Middletown
145 Middletown (85 employees, TCR 14.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

145 Middletown has more employees than the Freight Trucking LTL median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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
2018 15.7 9.7 13 0 0
2016 13.3 12.1 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · CT · Cheshire

3,020 Freight Trucking LTL employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 68 employers in Cheshire, CT · 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 OCA 14.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR MI MILWAUKEE 14.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sturgeon 14.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABF Freight 220 14.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Greenskies Clean Energy LLC 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE ITW Graphics 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE 570 - Hartford 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thinklogical, A Belden Brand 85 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bozzuto's Inc. 1,617 FTE
CITY-NEAR 88500 1,049 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cheshire Corectional Institution 440 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cheshire 385 FTE
NAT-TCR Comfort Inn by the Bay 14.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Millard Chicago Window Cleaning LLC 14.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Modesto Post Acute Center 14.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 4769-950-Williams Sonoma 14.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Family Health Services Clinics 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE JX Peterbilt - Waukesha 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Enterprise Products (Northern MAPL) 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Penske : 4783-00 Starbucks/Atlanta, GA 85 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, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.