General freight trucking, local · Ohio

1st Express Inc.

Toledo, OH · ~41 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1st Express Inc. runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General freight trucking, local workplace, earning a grade A.

1st Express Inc.: 1.4 TCR = 32% of General freight trucking, local BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1st Express Inc. safety composite

1st Express Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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

1st Express Inc.: 1.8 → 3.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 3.7 TCR · DART/TCR 2.24× in 2024

1st Express Inc.'s TCR rose 1.4 from 1.8 in 2016 to 3.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 2.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Toledo, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 32% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #29/186
  • PHOTO D.G. Coleman Inc.
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: D.G. Coleman Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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1st Express Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1st Express Inc. averages 1.4 TCR (32% of the General freight trucking, local BLS benchmark).

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

1st Express Inc. TCR series: 2016=1.8 · 2017=1.9 · 2018=3.7 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=2.4 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=3.2 · BLS 4.5

Where 1st Express Inc. falls in its industry

2,784 General freight trucking, loca establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 186 General freight trucking, loca employers in Ohio.

1st Express Inc. (41 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 1st Express Inc.
1st Express Inc. (41 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

1st Express Inc. has fewer employees than the General freight trucking, local median and a lower 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2024 3.2 3.2 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 3.7 3.7 2 0 0
2017 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2016 1.8 1.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · OH · Toledo

2,784 General freight trucking, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 551 employers in Toledo, OH · 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 D.G. Coleman Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Diaz Stone and Pallet Inc 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Women Truck Brokers, Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maiers Transport and Warehousing Inc 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Great Lakes Growers LLC 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hoover Gardens & Gifts 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Loadout Building 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harrison Hub FRAC 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR Toledo Assembly Complex 5,508 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Toledo Hospital 5,002 FTE
CITY-NEAR Toledo Hospital 4,912 FTE
CITY-NEAR Promedica Downtown Headquarters 3,308 FTE
NAT-TCR CMC Recycling Liberty 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR John Jones Automotive Dealerships Inc 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Jackson SC 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Bay City SC 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pinnacle Inc - Benton KY 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Landcare Landscaping 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE PGLA 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northwest Contracting Services, Inc. 41 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.