Transportation · Maryland

ABF Freight 198

Hagerstown, MD · ~21 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ABF Freight 198 runs at 285% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Transportation workplace, earning a grade F.

ABF Freight 198: 12.8 TCR = 285% of Transportation BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ABF Freight 198 safety composite

ABF Freight 198 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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 12.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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 198: 10.4 → 14.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 22.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.1× in 2024

ABF Freight 198's TCR rose 3.7 from 10.4 in 2017 to 14.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 22.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Hagerstown, MD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.8 · 285% of ind

  • DART 14.1 DART
  • RANK #38/41
  • PHOTO SEA Seattle
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SEA Seattle (0.0 TCR gap)

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ABF Freight 198 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ABF Freight 198 averages 12.8 TCR (285% of the Transportation BLS benchmark).

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

ABF Freight 198 TCR series: 2017=10.4 · 2018=3.9 · 2019=22.8 · 2020=17.1 · 2021=17.3 · 2022=0 · 2023=16.9 · 2024=14.1 · BLS 4.5

Where ABF Freight 198 falls in its industry

3,020 Transportation establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #38 safest of 41 Transportation employers in Maryland.

ABF Freight 198 (21 employees, TCR 12.8) 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 198
ABF Freight 198 (21 employees, TCR 12.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

ABF Freight 198 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 14.1 14.1 3 0 0
2023 16.9 12.7 4 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 17.3 17.3 4 0 0
2020 17.1 12.8 4 0 0
2019 22.8 17.1 4 0 0
2018 3.9 3.9 1 0 0
2017 10.4 10.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · MD · Hagerstown

3,020 Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 205 employers in Hagerstown, MD · 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 SEA Seattle 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6284-RW-SEA 12.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Everett 235 12.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wooden Shoe Logistics LLC 12.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Salisbury Hatchery #2 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1996-Galena, MD (Monsanto Co.) 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mag Spec Chemicals OH 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Orsted - Annapolis 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Meritus Health 2,796 FTE
CITY-NEAR Meritus Medical Center 2,460 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6458-HAGE 1,921 FTE
CITY-NEAR Volvo Group Trucks Operations - Hagerstown, Maryland 1,592 FTE
NAT-TCR City of Saginaw Water Treatment Plant 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR West Pak Avocado 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR The Right Step Hill Country 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Ames - Fire Department 12.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE ABF Freight 184 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE ABF Freight 241 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Agri Supply of Tifton 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE McCown Technology Corporation 21 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.