Transportation · Tennessee

ABF Freight 118

Chattanooga, TN · ~24 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ABF Freight 118 runs at 187% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Transportation workplace, earning a grade D.

ABF Freight 118: 8.4 TCR = 187% of Transportation BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ABF Freight 118 safety composite

ABF Freight 118 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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 8.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 18.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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 118: 12.1 → 22.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 22.5 TCR · DART/TCR 2.14× in 2024

ABF Freight 118's TCR rose 10.4 from 12.1 in 2016 to 22.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Chattanooga, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.4 · 187% of ind

  • DART 18.0 DART
  • RANK #110/123
  • PHOTO XSM
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: XSM (0.0 TCR gap)

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ABF Freight 118 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ABF Freight 118 averages 8.4 TCR (187% of the Transportation BLS benchmark).

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

ABF Freight 118 TCR series: 2016=12.1 · 2017=0 · 2018=20.6 · 2019=5 · 2020=0 · 2021=4.1 · 2022=7.6 · 2023=4 · 2024=22.5 · BLS 4.5

Where ABF Freight 118 falls in its industry

3,020 Transportation establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #110 safest of 123 Transportation employers in Tennessee.

ABF Freight 118 (24 employees, TCR 8.4) 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 118
ABF Freight 118 (24 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

ABF Freight 118 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 22.5 18.0 5 0 0
2023 4.0 4.0 1 0 0
2022 7.6 7.6 2 0 0
2021 4.1 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 5.0 5.0 1 0 0
2018 20.6 17.2 6 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 12.1 9.1 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · TN · Chattanooga

3,020 Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 695 employers in Chattanooga, TN · 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 XSM 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6284-YR-318 RX 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR BFL-ODFL 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Auburn, MA Terminal 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE RIVERSIDE FUQUA FARMS LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buy Sod USA - Nashville Sod Farm 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Warren-Viola Utility District 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE JOB 268BG Rutherford County 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA COKE 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA FOOD 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR USXpress 7,385 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cardiology GB 6,606 FTE
NAT-TCR Giant Food Stores 6560 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR H.C.S, LLC 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR EB Lake City Medical Center 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Nyspr - Laurelton 8.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE ABF Freight 119 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE ABF Freight 081 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Onawa 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Diamond & Thiel Construction Company Inc. 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: 2024, 2023, 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.