General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) · New York

16 - Meriden Terminal

Meriden, NY · ~100 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

16 - Meriden Terminal runs at 178% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) workplace, earning a grade D.

16 - Meriden Terminal: 8.0 TCR = 178% of General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

16 - Meriden Terminal safety composite

16 - Meriden Terminal scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.54 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

16 - Meriden Terminal: 6.5 → 9.5 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 9.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.19× in 2018

16 - Meriden Terminal's TCR rose 3.1 from 6.5 in 2016 to 9.5 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Meriden, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.0 · 178% of ind

  • DART 9.5 DART
  • RANK #45/98
  • PHOTO NEW
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~100 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NEW (0.0 TCR gap)

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16 - Meriden Terminal in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 16 - Meriden Terminal averages 8.0 TCR (178% of the General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS benchmark).

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

16 - Meriden Terminal TCR series: 2016=6.5 · 2017=8 · 2018=9.5 · BLS 4.5

Where 16 - Meriden Terminal falls in its industry

3,020 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #45 safest of 98 General freight trucking, long employers in New York.

16 - Meriden Terminal (100 employees, TCR 8.0) 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 16 - Meriden Terminal
16 - Meriden Terminal (100 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

16 - Meriden Terminal has more employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, 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 9.5 9.5 12 0 0
2017 8.0 8.0 11 0 0
2016 6.5 6.5 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · NY · Meriden

3,020 General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 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 NEW 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Montgomery MON 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Transport - 328 328SH 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR NDO 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Carver Sand & Gravel LLC. 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tonawanda SC 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE O&M Turbo Blading 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE MLJ Contracting 100 FTE
NAT-TCR D.G.M., Inc. 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Jackson Emc - Gwinnett 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Waverly Plastics 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Royal West - Shoemakersville 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Baton Rouge Heritage House 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flexsteel Industries, Inc 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Greendale Forest Nursing & Rehab 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bekaert Corporation 100 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.