Transportation · New York

ABF Freight 026

Tonawanda, NY · ~32 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ABF Freight 026 runs at 270% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Transportation workplace, earning a grade F.

ABF Freight 026: 12.1 TCR = 270% of Transportation BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ABF Freight 026 safety composite

ABF Freight 026 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

ABF Freight 026: 7.7 → 19.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 19.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.53× in 2024

ABF Freight 026's TCR rose 11.8 from 7.7 in 2017 to 19.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Tonawanda, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.1 · 270% of ind

  • DART 6.5 DART
  • RANK #81/98
  • PHOTO FWA
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FWA (0.0 TCR gap)

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ABF Freight 026 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ABF Freight 026 averages 12.1 TCR (270% of the Transportation BLS benchmark).

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

ABF Freight 026 TCR series: 2017=7.7 · 2018=17.7 · 2019=9.2 · 2020=3.6 · 2021=14.6 · 2022=12.6 · 2023=12.2 · 2024=19.5 · BLS 4.5

Where ABF Freight 026 falls in its industry

3,020 Transportation establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #81 safest of 98 Transportation employers in New York.

ABF Freight 026 (32 employees, TCR 12.1) 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 026
ABF Freight 026 (32 employees, TCR 12.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

ABF Freight 026 has fewer 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 19.5 6.5 6 0 0
2023 12.2 9.2 4 0 0
2022 12.6 9.4 4 0 0
2021 14.6 7.3 4 0 0
2020 3.6 0.0 1 0 0
2019 9.2 9.2 2 0 0
2018 17.7 11.8 6 0 0
2017 7.7 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · NY · Tonawanda

3,020 Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 134 employers in Tonawanda, NY · 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 FWA 12.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cebtral Freight Lines, Inc. - Hayward 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Holland - KC 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR KC KANSAS CITY 12.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Schofield Farms LLC 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE CSS Farms - Bliss 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1482 West Genesee Road, Baldwinsville NY 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE 166 Gary Dr., Brockport, NY 14420 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tonawanda Engine Plant 1,623 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sumitomo Rubber USA, LLC 1,396 FTE
CITY-NEAR Praxair Technology Center 1,039 FTE
CITY-NEAR Linde Inc. 986 FTE
NAT-TCR Regal Shortstop Logistics 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Rogue Community Health - White City Clinic 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Auburn Wa 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Blaine Public Works 12.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE ABF Freight 055 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE ABF Freight 189 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE LeMars 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Semmel Excavating LLC. 32 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. 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.