General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) · Indiana

AFC - Gary

Gary, IN · ~92 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AFC - Gary runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade B.

AFC - Gary: 2.5 TCR = 55% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AFC - Gary safety composite

AFC - Gary scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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).

D

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

AFC - Gary: 1.0 → 3.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 3.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.27× in 2023

AFC - Gary's TCR rose 2.2 from 1.0 in 2021 to 3.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Gary, IN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 55% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #41/125
  • PHOTO Dillon Transportatio…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~92 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dillon Transportation LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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AFC - Gary in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AFC - Gary averages 2.5 TCR (55% of the General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

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

AFC - Gary TCR series: 2021=1 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=3.1 · BLS 4.5

Where AFC - Gary falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #41 safest of 125 General freight trucking, long employers in Indiana.

AFC - Gary (92 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate AFC - Gary
AFC - Gary (92 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

AFC - Gary has more employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 3.1 3.1 3 0 0
2022 3.3 1.7 4 0 0
2021 1.0 1.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · IN · Gary

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 107 employers in Gary, IN · 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 Dillon Transportation LLC 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Effingham CTS 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR HUMBOLDT PACIFIC LLC 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR FRENCH TRUCKING INC 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Windy Ridge Dairy, LLC 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Riverstart III Solar Farm 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Continental Electric Company 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Indy Containerboard Hartford City Mill 92 FTE
CITY-NEAR USS Gary Works - Plant 4,744 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gary Works 3,767 FTE
CITY-NEAR HRNI Holdings, LLC 1,430 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DIN2 569 FTE
NAT-TCR Unit #2311 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #2795 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Contech Mdtmp 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR American Fire 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-Cincinnati 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pretium Packaging - Carrollton 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE MN Women's Care-Maplewood 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE USM Store #547 (United) 92 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. 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.