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

Apex Express Inc

Dayton, OH · ~271 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Apex Express Inc runs at 77% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade B.

Apex Express Inc: 3.5 TCR = 77% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Apex Express Inc safety composite

Apex Express Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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).

C

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.9

2019→2021

Apex Express Inc injury rate improved

Apex Express Inc's TCR fell 1.9 from 2.4 in 2019 to 0.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 7.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=2.4 · 2020=7.5 · 2021=0.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Dayton, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 3.5 · 77% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #101/186
  • PHOTO Morristown Express
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~271 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Morristown Express (0.0 TCR gap)

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Apex Express Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Apex Express Inc averages 3.5 TCR (77% 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

Apex Express Inc TCR series: 2019=2.4 · 2020=7.5 · 2021=0.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Apex Express Inc falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #101 safest of 186 General freight trucking, long employers in Ohio.

Apex Express Inc (271 employees, TCR 3.5) 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 Apex Express Inc
Apex Express Inc (271 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Apex Express Inc has more employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, median and a higher 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
2021 0.5 0.5 1 0 0
2020 7.5 6.8 11 0 0
2019 2.4 1.8 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · OH · Dayton

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 599 employers in Dayton, OH · 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 Morristown Express 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pensacola Florida 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR JNJ Express, INC 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ardagh- Roanoke 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Betco Corporation 271 FTE
STATE-SIZE Swagelok HPF 271 FTE
STATE-SIZE MT Business Technologies 271 FTE
STATE-SIZE US - Supply Chain : 0935 271 FTE
CITY-NEAR Miami Valley Hospital 6,862 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Dayton 5,359 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dayton Children's Hospital 3,590 FTE
CITY-NEAR CareSource Management Services LLC 3,172 FTE
NAT-TCR All-Star-Lakeville 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR T. T. Barge Services, Mile 237 LLC 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Tft #595 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR MMF 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE WuXi AppTec STP Main 271 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meijer Store 163 271 FTE
NAT-SIZE Robbins Manufacturing, Inc. 271 FTE
NAT-SIZE White's Travel Center LLC 271 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.