Transportation · Virginia

ABF Freight 133

Chesapeake, VA · ~23 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ABF Freight 133 runs at 306% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Transportation workplace, earning a grade F.

ABF Freight 133: 13.8 TCR = 306% of Transportation BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ABF Freight 133 safety composite

ABF Freight 133 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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 133: 9.5 → 21.6 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 25.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.94× in 2024

ABF Freight 133's TCR rose 12.2 from 9.5 in 2016 to 21.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 25.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Chesapeake, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.8 · 306% of ind

  • DART 13.0 DART
  • RANK #64/68
  • PHOTO 6284-YR-145 YT
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 6284-YR-145 YT (0.0 TCR gap)

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ABF Freight 133 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ABF Freight 133 averages 13.8 TCR (306% of the Transportation BLS benchmark).

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

ABF Freight 133 TCR series: 2016=9.5 · 2017=10.7 · 2018=15.8 · 2019=5.2 · 2020=16.7 · 2021=25.2 · 2022=15.5 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=21.6 · BLS 4.5

Where ABF Freight 133 falls in its industry

3,020 Transportation establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #64 safest of 68 Transportation employers in Virginia.

ABF Freight 133 (23 employees, TCR 13.8) 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 133
ABF Freight 133 (23 employees, TCR 13.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

ABF Freight 133 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 21.6 13.0 5 0 0
2023 3.9 3.9 1 0 0
2022 15.5 15.5 4 0 0
2021 25.2 21.0 6 0 0
2020 16.7 16.7 4 0 0
2019 5.2 5.2 1 0 0
2018 15.8 0.0 4 0 0
2017 10.7 10.7 3 0 0
2016 9.5 3.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · VA · Chesapeake

3,020 Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 434 employers in Chesapeake, VA · 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-145 YT 13.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Holland - RO 13.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Transport - 958 13.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABF Freight 113 13.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Seamans Orchard LC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Short Mountain Orchard Contractors, LLC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ayrshire Farm 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE George's Broadway Hatchery 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - ORF2 2,432 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chesapeake Regional Medical Center 2,059 FTE
CITY-NEAR QVC Chesapeake, Inc. 1,056 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crossways 931 FTE
NAT-TCR Weldaloy Products Company 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR MADO Healthcare Douglas Park 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Casmr - San Marcos 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Riverlane Logistic 13.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE ABF Freight 152 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE ABF Freight 047 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cal Gro Pump Service, Inc. 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Springdale Winnelson 23 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.