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

Arab Cartage & Express Co., Inc.

Arab, AL · ~70 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Arab Cartage & Express Co., Inc. runs at 110% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade C.

Arab Cartage & Express Co., Inc.: 4.9 TCR = 110% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Arab Cartage & Express Co., Inc. safety composite

Arab Cartage & Express Co., Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

Arab Cartage & Express Co., Inc.: 1.2 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 11.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.58× in 2024

Arab Cartage & Express Co., Inc.'s TCR rose 1.7 from 1.2 in 2019 to 2.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 11.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Arab, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.9 · 110% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #62/90
  • PHOTO Ellenwood, GA (WC US…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ellenwood, GA (WC USX ATL) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Arab Cartage & Express Co., Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Arab Cartage & Express Co., Inc. averages 4.9 TCR (110% 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

Arab Cartage & Express Co., Inc. TCR series: 2019=1.2 · 2020=7.4 · 2021=5.4 · 2022=11.3 · 2023=1.4 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Arab Cartage & Express Co., Inc. falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #62 safest of 90 General freight trucking, long employers in Alabama.

Arab Cartage & Express Co., Inc. (70 employees, TCR 4.9) 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 Arab Cartage & Express Co., Inc.
Arab Cartage & Express Co., Inc. (70 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Arab Cartage & Express Co., 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
2024 2.9 2.9 2 0 0
2023 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2022 11.3 10.0 9 0 0
2021 5.4 5.4 5 0 0
2020 7.4 5.0 6 0 0
2019 1.2 1.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · AL · Arab

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 18 employers in Arab, AL · 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 Ellenwood, GA (WC USX ATL) 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR WOODBURN TRANSPORT 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 575 Ensminger Road 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Whirlpool (WC USX WGA) 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Albertville Research Facility 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE International Paper Riverdale 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE BM7 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dura Coat Products, Inc. 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 306 312 FTE
CITY-NEAR 306 292 FTE
CITY-NEAR Atrion Medical Products, Inc. 179 FTE
CITY-NEAR Orchid Orthopedic Solutions 145 FTE
NAT-TCR King's Daughters Medical Center 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Alpha Systems 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR ShipBob Bethlehem 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 495 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Colvico, Inc 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE VSPOne Tampa Bay 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spring Creek Village 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Richmond Klockner Power Distribution Inc 70 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. 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.