Freight Trucking LTL · Texas

518 Kilgore

Kilgore, TX · ~26 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

518 Kilgore runs at 45% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Freight Trucking LTL workplace, earning a grade A.

518 Kilgore: 2.0 TCR = 45% of Freight Trucking LTL BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

518 Kilgore safety composite

518 Kilgore scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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 2.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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

518 Kilgore: 0.0 → 4.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 4.1 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2018

518 Kilgore's TCR rose 4.1 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Kilgore, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 2.0 · 45% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #25/237
  • PHOTO JKN-ODFL
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: JKN-ODFL (0.0 TCR gap)

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518 Kilgore in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 518 Kilgore averages 2.0 TCR (45% of the Freight Trucking LTL BLS benchmark).

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

518 Kilgore TCR series: 2016=0 · 2018=4.1 · BLS 4.5

Where 518 Kilgore falls in its industry

3,020 Freight Trucking LTL establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 237 Freight Trucking LTL employers in Texas.

518 Kilgore (26 employees, TCR 2.0) 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 518 Kilgore
518 Kilgore (26 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

518 Kilgore has fewer employees than the Freight Trucking LTL median and a lower 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 4.1 4.1 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · TX · Kilgore

3,020 Freight Trucking LTL employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 51 employers in Kilgore, TX · 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 JKN-ODFL 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Transport - 731 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SC-Piedmont-682-Holland 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Transport - 322 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Belding Farms 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Friona Industries, L.P. 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Keeling Cattle Feeders 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Descanso Dairy, LLC 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR HES Kilgore 480 FTE
CITY-NEAR Orgill Kilgore Distribution Center 353 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 572 344 FTE
CITY-NEAR HTXKG01 328 FTE
NAT-TCR JSTGrocers LLC 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR AGE Conway Plant 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lancashire Terrace 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR LaPorte Production Facility 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Medford 017 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Des Moines (Ankeny) Depot 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pompano Beach One Hour Air Conditioning 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Asf 421 26 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.