Transportation · Missouri

ABF Freight 003

Kansas City, MO · ~358 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

ABF Freight 003 runs at 185% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Transportation workplace, earning a grade D.

ABF Freight 003: 8.3 TCR = 185% of Transportation BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ABF Freight 003 safety composite

ABF Freight 003 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 2%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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

ABF Freight 003: 8.2 → 11.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.99× in 2024

ABF Freight 003's TCR rose 3.1 from 8.2 in 2016 to 11.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Kansas City, MO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.3 · 185% of ind

  • DART 8.3 DART
  • RANK #58/69
  • PHOTO GR GRAND RAPIDS
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 327 inj
  • SIZE ~358 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GR GRAND RAPIDS (0.0 TCR gap)

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ABF Freight 003 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ABF Freight 003 averages 8.3 TCR (185% of the Transportation BLS benchmark).

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

ABF Freight 003 TCR series: 2016=8.2 · 2017=9.1 · 2018=6.7 · 2019=8.8 · 2020=5.3 · 2021=9.4 · 2022=8 · 2023=8.4 · 2024=11.3 · BLS 4.5

Where ABF Freight 003 falls in its industry

3,020 Transportation establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #58 safest of 69 Transportation employers in Missouri.

ABF Freight 003 (358 employees, TCR 8.3) 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 ABF Freight 003
ABF Freight 003 (358 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

ABF Freight 003 has more employees than the Transportation 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
2024 11.3 8.3 45 0 0
2023 8.4 6.3 37 4 0
2022 8.0 7.8 40 0 0
2021 9.4 8.5 43 1 0
2020 5.3 5.3 23 0 0
2019 8.8 6.5 32 2 0
2018 6.7 3.7 29 2 1
2017 9.1 6.4 41 0 0
2016 8.2 5.8 37 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · MO · Kansas City

3,020 Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 1,023 employers in Kansas City, MO · 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 GR GRAND RAPIDS 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR DVJ- VI JON 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 022-OSH 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 607-STL SHOP 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Schreiber Foods Monett 358 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 86 358 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kansas City Distribution Center 358 FTE
STATE-SIZE FWB Lebanon 359 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mass Service Organization 11,859 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hallmark Cards Mass Channel 11,578 FTE
CITY-NEAR Global Merchandising Services (GMS) 9,548 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's Mercy - Missouri 7,709 FTE
NAT-TCR LaForce - Fort Collins 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR East LA 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sonesta Fort Lauderdale 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 7008 - 1-Main 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE SCM Industries, LLC 358 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pinnacle Bank Arena 358 FTE
NAT-SIZE LOT Management 358 FTE
NAT-SIZE HCA Florida West Tampa Hospital 358 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.

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

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