Transportation · Illinois

ABF Freight 034

Sauk Village, IL · ~622 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

ABF Freight 034 runs at 158% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Transportation workplace, earning a grade D.

ABF Freight 034: 7.1 TCR = 158% of Transportation BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ABF Freight 034 safety composite

ABF Freight 034 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34% 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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 034: 6.2 → 8.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2024

ABF Freight 034's TCR rose 2.6 from 6.2 in 2017 to 8.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Sauk Village, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.1 · 158% of ind

  • DART 6.3 DART
  • RANK #101/177
  • PHOTO R+L Carriers - ROA
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 429 inj
  • SIZE ~622 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: R+L Carriers - ROA (0.0 TCR gap)

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ABF Freight 034 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ABF Freight 034 averages 7.1 TCR (158% of the Transportation BLS benchmark).

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

ABF Freight 034 TCR series: 2017=6.2 · 2018=6.1 · 2019=8.4 · 2020=4.2 · 2021=8.2 · 2022=5.3 · 2023=9.9 · 2024=8.8 · BLS 4.5

Where ABF Freight 034 falls in its industry

3,020 Transportation establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #101 safest of 177 Transportation employers in Illinois.

ABF Freight 034 (622 employees, TCR 7.1) 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate ABF Freight 034
ABF Freight 034 (622 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

ABF Freight 034 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 8.8 6.3 66 4 0
2023 9.9 7.1 78 2 0
2022 5.3 4.6 40 0 0
2021 8.2 6.5 60 1 1
2020 4.2 3.5 31 0 0
2019 8.4 6.4 55 1 0
2018 6.1 4.7 48 0 0
2017 6.2 3.2 51 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · IL · Sauk Village

3,020 Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 15 employers in Sauk Village, 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 R+L Carriers - ROA 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR XYH 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR LUB 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR NSA 7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE John Deere Global Crop Harvesting PDC 622 FTE
STATE-SIZE Taylor a Division of Carrier Commercial Refrigeration 623 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Dane - Kewanee 621 FTE
STATE-SIZE OSF Saint Elizabeth Medical Center 624 FTE
CITY-NEAR Winpak Portion Packaging 271 FTE
CITY-NEAR Winpak Portion Packaging, Inc, Sauk Village, IL 263 FTE
CITY-NEAR SET Enterprises 119 FTE
CITY-NEAR Masco Coatings Group Sauk Village Distribution 91 FTE
NAT-TCR Hotel Zaza Memorial City 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Mystic Scenic Studios 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 4127 Stroudsburg 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Txbat - Baytown Center 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Azphx - Phoenix Air Gateway 622 FTE
NAT-SIZE AC Store Sales - United States 622 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shell Chemical 622 FTE
NAT-SIZE Glovis America Ma 622 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.