Freight carriers (except air couriers), air, scheduled · Illinois

A&B Freight Line

Rockford, IL · ~54 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

A&B Freight Line runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Freight carriers (except air couriers), air, scheduled workplace, earning a grade B.

A&B Freight Line: 3.3 TCR = 72% of Freight carriers (except air couriers), air, scheduled BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

A&B Freight Line safety composite

A&B Freight Line scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.5

2017→2018

A&B Freight Line injury rate improved

A&B Freight Line's TCR fell 0.5 from 3.5 in 2017 to 3.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.5 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.5 · 2018=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 481112 · Rockford, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.3 · 72% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK P49
  • PHOTO Ameriflight-Phoenix
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ameriflight-Phoenix (0.0 TCR gap)

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A&B Freight Line in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows A&B Freight Line averages 3.3 TCR (72% of the Freight carriers (except air couriers), air, scheduled BLS benchmark).

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

A&B Freight Line TCR series: 2017=3.5 · 2018=3 · BLS 4.5

Where A&B Freight Line falls in its industry

45 Freight carriers (except air c establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
A&B Freight Line (54 employees, TCR 3.3) among 25 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 26 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate A&B Freight Line
A&B Freight Line (54 employees, TCR 3.3) among 25 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

A&B Freight Line has fewer employees than the Freight carriers (except air couriers), median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 3.0 3.0 2 0 0
2017 3.5 3.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

481112 · IL · Rockford

45 Freight carriers (except air couriers), air, scheduled employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 405 employers in Rockford, IL · 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 Ameriflight-Phoenix 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Everts Air Fuel 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tatonduk Outfitters Limited - Anchorage 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ameriflight-Portland 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Illinois Crop Improvement Association, Inc. 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Illinois Electric Cooperative 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenlink Energy Solutions, Inc. 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE POINTCORE Construction, LLC 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILRKF - ROCKFORD AIR HUB 2,634 FTE
CITY-NEAR Swedish American Hospital - 4800 2,629 FTE
CITY-NEAR PCI Pharma Services Rockford 2,175 FTE
CITY-NEAR SwedishAmerican Hospital 1,855 FTE
NAT-TCR RCX Iowa 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR LSC Communications Menasha Print 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Metro Green Recycling 1 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Payson Unified Sd 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE United Structural Products LLC 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Parkway Products Ft. Collins Colorado 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Office/Shop 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Original Mattress Factory-Marietta 54 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.