TRANSPORTATION · Texas

ABF Freight 079

Austin, TX · ~24 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ABF Freight 079 runs at 327% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical TRANSPORTATION workplace, earning a grade F.

ABF Freight 079: 14.7 TCR = 327% of TRANSPORTATION BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ABF Freight 079 safety composite

ABF Freight 079 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 0%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 21.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% 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%).

TCR Δ

−14.1

2016→2022

ABF Freight 079 injury rate improved

ABF Freight 079's TCR fell 14.1 from 35.3 in 2016 to 21.2 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2016 at 35.3 TCR. In 2022, DART was 1.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=35.3 · 2017=17.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=10.3 · 2020=4.1 · 2021=15.2 · 2022=21.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Austin, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.7 · 327% of ind

  • DART 21.2 DART
  • RANK #232/237
  • PHOTO 6284-YR-143 RX
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 6284-YR-143 RX (0.0 TCR gap)

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ABF Freight 079 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ABF Freight 079 averages 14.7 TCR (327% of the TRANSPORTATION BLS benchmark).

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

ABF Freight 079 TCR series: 2016=35.3 · 2017=17 · 2018=0 · 2019=10.3 · 2020=4.1 · 2021=15.2 · 2022=21.2 · BLS 4.5

Where ABF Freight 079 falls in its industry

3,020 TRANSPORTATION establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #232 safest of 237 TRANSPORTATION employers in Texas.

ABF Freight 079 (24 employees, TCR 14.7) 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 079
ABF Freight 079 (24 employees, TCR 14.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

ABF Freight 079 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
2022 21.2 21.2 6 0 0
2021 15.2 15.2 4 0 0
2020 4.1 4.1 1 0 0
2019 10.3 10.3 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 17.0 17.0 5 0 0
2016 35.3 28.9 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · TX · Austin

3,020 TRANSPORTATION employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 1,645 employers in Austin, TX · 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 6284-YR-143 RX 14.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABF Freight 352 14.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Freight Lines - Lubbock TX 14.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Transport - 150 150SH 14.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Treesap Farms LLC - Sales 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Springlake Dairy LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pineywoods Farm 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Darty Gin Inc 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ensign Services 11,325 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA-US-TX-Austin-Giga Texas 8,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6017-Loc: CORP LOC - US Austin 6,911 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6017-CORP LOC - USA UNITED STATES - AST 5,272 FTE
NAT-TCR 6400-SWY-0005-0005-01877 14.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Giovanni Foods 14.7 TCR
NAT-TCR South 14.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Reach 14.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fabco Inc. (West Plt) 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Lord's Table, Inc / TLT Inc. 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE BTR Solutions, LLC d/b/a Sipi Asset Recovery Hayward CA 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Okuls - Tulsa 24 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: 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.