Transportation · Illinois

ABF Freight 115

Rockford, IL · ~22 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ABF Freight 115 runs at 220% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Transportation workplace, earning a grade F.

ABF Freight 115: 9.9 TCR = 220% of Transportation BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ABF Freight 115 safety composite

ABF Freight 115 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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 115: 6.5 → 8.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 12.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.44× in 2024

ABF Freight 115's TCR rose 2.2 from 6.5 in 2017 to 8.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 12.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Rockford, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.9 · 220% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #141/177
  • PHOTO Central Transport - …
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Central Transport - 181 181SH (0.0 TCR gap)

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ABF Freight 115 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ABF Freight 115 averages 9.9 TCR (220% of the Transportation BLS benchmark).

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

ABF Freight 115 TCR series: 2017=6.5 · 2018=6.8 · 2019=12.7 · 2020=8.1 · 2021=12.5 · 2022=12.2 · 2023=11.5 · 2024=8.7 · BLS 4.5

Where ABF Freight 115 falls in its industry

3,020 Transportation establishments

Safer than 15% 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 #141 safest of 177 Transportation employers in Illinois.

ABF Freight 115 (22 employees, TCR 9.9) 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 115
ABF Freight 115 (22 employees, TCR 9.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

ABF Freight 115 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 8.7 4.3 2 0 0
2023 11.5 7.7 3 0 0
2022 12.2 8.1 3 0 0
2021 12.5 4.2 3 0 0
2020 8.1 4.1 2 0 0
2019 12.7 4.3 3 0 0
2018 6.8 6.8 2 0 0
2017 6.5 3.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · IL · Rockford

3,020 Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 405 employers in Rockford, 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 Central Transport - 181 181SH 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR XMC 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Racine 159 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 149 MANASSAS 9.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tolono Main 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anna Evergreen, LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sunset 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cedarcrest, LLC. 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILRKF - ROCKFORD AIR HUB 2,634 FTE
CITY-NEAR Swedish American Hospital - 4800 2,629 FTE
CITY-NEAR PCI Pharma Services Rockford 2,175 FTE
CITY-NEAR SwedishAmerican Hospital 1,855 FTE
NAT-TCR Aspire Bakeries - Stockton 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Waterfront Hotel 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Arrow Paper Corportation 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Community Restaurants, Inc. 9.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE ABF Freight 027 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE ABF Freight 321 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avista Sandpoint 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avista Generation Control Center 22 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.