General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Truckload · Michigan

6843

Coldwater, MI · ~215 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

6843 runs at 48% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Truckload workplace, earning a grade A.

6843: 2.1 TCR = 48% of General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Truckload BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

6843 safety composite

6843 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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).

D

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

6843: 0.9 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 4.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.8× in 2022

6843's TCR rose 4.0 from 0.9 in 2016 to 4.9 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Coldwater, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 2.1 · 48% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #32/89
  • PHOTO Knight Refrigerated …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~215 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Knight Refrigerated Memphis (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Michigan employers → · Look up another →

6843 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 6843 averages 2.1 TCR (48% of the General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Truckload BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

6843 TCR series: 2016=0.9 · 2018=2.2 · 2019=2.1 · 2020=2 · 2021=0.8 · 2022=4.9 · BLS 4.5

Where 6843 falls in its industry

3,252 General Freight Trucking, Long establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 89 General Freight Trucking, Long employers in Michigan.

6843 (215 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate 6843
6843 (215 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

6843 has more employees than the General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2022 4.9 3.9 14 0 0
2021 0.8 0.8 2 0 0
2020 2.0 1.2 5 0 0
2019 2.1 1.6 5 0 0
2018 2.2 2.2 5 0 0
2016 0.9 0.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · MI · Coldwater

3,252 General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Truckload employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 64 employers in Coldwater, MI · 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 Knight Refrigerated Memphis 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR California Overland Ltd. 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR CTS Transportation, LLC 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pennsylvania Corporate 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE TRAVERSE CITY MI - 3197 215 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Romulus 215 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mueller Brass Company 215 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sweet Express, LLC 215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Coldwater Facility 926 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6043 912 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 6043 795 FTE
CITY-NEAR ProMedica Coldwater Regional Hospital 537 FTE
NAT-TCR Commercial Tire Corporate Office 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ply Gem Fence and Railing 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 6795-07172B01 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 0128 - Simi Valley Ca Whse 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE College Park Packers 215 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1153 - North Riverside Il Whse 215 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1103 - Bucks County Pa Whse 215 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6458-ZNKL 215 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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