Transportation · Arkansas

ABF Freight 004

North Little Rock, AR · ~415 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

ABF Freight 004 runs at 107% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Transportation workplace, earning a grade C.

ABF Freight 004: 4.8 TCR = 107% of Transportation BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ABF Freight 004 safety composite

ABF Freight 004 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% 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).

D

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
C 3.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.7

2016→2024

ABF Freight 004 injury rate improved

ABF Freight 004's TCR fell 1.7 from 7.2 in 2016 to 5.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.2 · 2017=4.6 · 2018=4.8 · 2019=3.5 · 2020=5.4 · 2022=3.6 · 2023=4.1 · 2024=5.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · North Little Rock, AR ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.8 · 107% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #35/46
  • PHOTO 014-SBN
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 198 inj
  • SIZE ~415 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 014-SBN (0.0 TCR gap)

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ABF Freight 004 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ABF Freight 004 averages 4.8 TCR (107% of the Transportation BLS benchmark).

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

ABF Freight 004 TCR series: 2016=7.2 · 2017=4.6 · 2018=4.8 · 2019=3.5 · 2020=5.4 · 2022=3.6 · 2023=4.1 · 2024=5.5 · BLS 4.5

Where ABF Freight 004 falls in its industry

3,020 Transportation establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 46 Transportation employers in Arkansas.

ABF Freight 004 (415 employees, TCR 4.8) 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate ABF Freight 004
ABF Freight 004 (415 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

ABF Freight 004 has more employees than the Transportation 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
2024 5.5 3.1 28 0 1
2023 4.1 2.1 22 0 0
2022 3.6 2.9 20 0 0
2020 5.4 3.6 27 0 0
2019 3.5 2.0 16 0 0
2018 4.8 2.0 24 0 0
2017 4.6 1.6 23 0 0
2016 7.2 3.8 38 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · AR · North Little Rock

3,020 Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 149 employers in North Little Rock, AR · 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 014-SBN 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Minneapolis 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Transport - 549 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Opelika OPK 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nidec Motor Corporation - Mena 415 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4 415 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2587 417 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shearer's Foods - Newport 412 FTE
CITY-NEAR AR Little Rock 4,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maverick North Little Rock, AR 1,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR EngageMED 1,100 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Health Medical Center - North Little Rock 1,002 FTE
NAT-TCR Shell Fab & Design 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Cashwa Distributing Company/ Kearney 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR The Time New York 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Food Stores 6030 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Valley Youth House 415 FTE
NAT-SIZE Freedom Plaza SCC 415 FTE
NAT-SIZE Town and Country Resort 415 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fujifilm Electronic Materials 415 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, 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.