TRANSPORTATION · Pennsylvania

ABF Freight 182

Allentown, PA · ~34 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ABF Freight 182 runs at 171% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical TRANSPORTATION workplace, earning a grade D.

ABF Freight 182: 7.7 TCR = 171% of TRANSPORTATION BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ABF Freight 182 safety composite

ABF Freight 182 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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 182: 5.3 → 9.6 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 19.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.25× in 2023

ABF Freight 182's TCR rose 4.2 from 5.3 in 2016 to 9.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 19.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Allentown, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.7 · 171% of ind

  • DART 9.6 DART
  • RANK #74/120
  • PHOTO Central Freight Line…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Central Freight Lines Inc- Jacksonville (0.0 TCR gap)

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ABF Freight 182 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ABF Freight 182 averages 7.7 TCR (171% of the TRANSPORTATION BLS benchmark).

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

ABF Freight 182 TCR series: 2016=5.3 · 2017=5.7 · 2018=5.9 · 2019=0 · 2020=9.5 · 2021=19.4 · 2022=6.1 · 2023=9.6 · BLS 4.5

Where ABF Freight 182 falls in its industry

3,020 TRANSPORTATION establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #74 safest of 120 TRANSPORTATION employers in Pennsylvania.

ABF Freight 182 (34 employees, TCR 7.7) 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 182
ABF Freight 182 (34 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

ABF Freight 182 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
2023 9.6 9.6 3 0 0
2022 6.1 3.1 2 0 0
2021 19.4 16.2 6 0 0
2020 9.5 9.5 3 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 5.9 2.9 2 0 0
2017 5.7 5.7 2 0 0
2016 5.3 2.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · PA · Allentown

3,020 TRANSPORTATION employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 447 employers in Allentown, PA · 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 Freight Lines Inc- Jacksonville 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR EBO 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lexington 030 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Everett WA FXFE-EVT 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kaolin Mushroom Farms - West Grove Facility 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE George Didden Greenhouse 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kreider Farms - Dairy 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE R.W. Sauder Inc 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lehigh Valley Hospital 9,463 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1200SCC 6,531 FTE
CITY-NEAR Air Products and Chemicals Inc.- Main Campus 2,118 FTE
CITY-NEAR LOCATION 48042 1,728 FTE
NAT-TCR Ia Esapco 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Roberts Tours and Transportation Inc, Maui 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR City of New York Mills 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Raley's 417-Fair Oaks 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Harbin Lumber Company, Inc. 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arlington Electric, Inc. 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ruvica Builders, LLC 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Us Autoforce Colorado Springs 34 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: 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.