Transportation · Michigan

ABF Freight 196

Walker, MI · ~30 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ABF Freight 196 runs at 210% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Transportation workplace, earning a grade F.

ABF Freight 196: 9.5 TCR = 210% of Transportation BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ABF Freight 196 safety composite

ABF Freight 196 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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 196: 7.4 → 19.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 19.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.16× in 2024

ABF Freight 196's TCR rose 11.8 from 7.4 in 2016 to 19.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Walker, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.5 · 210% of ind

  • DART 10.9 DART
  • RANK #79/95
  • PHOTO MT-Helena-Field Office
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MT-Helena-Field Office (0.0 TCR gap)

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ABF Freight 196 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ABF Freight 196 averages 9.5 TCR (210% of the Transportation BLS benchmark).

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

ABF Freight 196 TCR series: 2016=7.4 · 2017=0 · 2018=11.8 · 2019=7.6 · 2020=16.4 · 2021=6.3 · 2022=8.6 · 2023=8 · 2024=19.1 · BLS 4.5

Where ABF Freight 196 falls in its industry

3,020 Transportation establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #79 safest of 95 Transportation employers in Michigan.

ABF Freight 196 (30 employees, TCR 9.5) 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 196
ABF Freight 196 (30 employees, TCR 9.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

ABF Freight 196 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 19.1 10.9 7 0 0
2023 8.0 8.0 3 0 0
2022 8.6 5.7 3 0 0
2021 6.3 3.1 2 0 0
2020 16.4 9.9 5 0 0
2019 7.6 0.0 2 0 0
2018 11.8 0.0 4 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 7.4 2.5 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · MI · Walker

3,020 Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 67 employers in Walker, MI · 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 MT-Helena-Field Office 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR UNLIMITED SERVICES IN TRANSPORTATION, INC. 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1100 BALTIMORE 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waynesboro 008 9.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kitchen Farms, Inc. 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Revolution Farms 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE TES Filer City Station 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Fermi II Nuclear Power Plant Project 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DGR1 793 FTE
CITY-NEAR BHI Bissell Homecare Inc. 705 FTE
CITY-NEAR Walker Stamping & Assembly (Challenge Manufacturing-Plant 1) 469 FTE
CITY-NEAR West Contract Manufacturing Grand Rapids 465 FTE
NAT-TCR Kynect Express, LLC. 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Regency Plastics - Ubly, Inc. dba Sierra Plastics, Inc. 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Iadsn - Denison Center 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Primal Pet Foods 9.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE ABF Freight 154 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE ABF Freight 125 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE ABF Freight 059 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avista Noxon 30 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.