Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) · Iowa

Art Pape Transfer DBA Tucker Freight Lines

Dubuque, IA · ~226 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Art Pape Transfer DBA Tucker Freight Lines runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade C.

Art Pape Transfer DBA Tucker Freight Lines: 3.7 TCR = 82% of Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Art Pape Transfer DBA Tucker Freight Lines safety composite

Art Pape Transfer DBA Tucker Freight Lines scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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%).

Art Pape Transfer DBA Tucker Freight Lines held a steady TCR band

Art Pape Transfer DBA Tucker Freight Lines's TCR held near 0.2 from 2.8 in 2021 to 3.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=2.8 · 2022=5.2 · 2023=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Dubuque, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 82% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #47/69
  • PHOTO Sumner Terminal
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~226 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sumner Terminal (0.0 TCR gap)

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Art Pape Transfer DBA Tucker Freight Lines in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Art Pape Transfer DBA Tucker Freight Lines averages 3.7 TCR (82% of the Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

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

Art Pape Transfer DBA Tucker Freight Lines TCR series: 2021=2.8 · 2022=5.2 · 2023=3 · BLS 4.5

Where Art Pape Transfer DBA Tucker Freight Lines falls in its industry

3,252 Trucking, general freight, lon establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #47 safest of 69 Trucking, general freight, lon employers in Iowa.

Art Pape Transfer DBA Tucker Freight Lines (226 employees, TCR 3.7) 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 Art Pape Transfer DBA Tucker Freight Lines
Art Pape Transfer DBA Tucker Freight Lines (226 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Art Pape Transfer DBA Tucker Freight Lines has more employees than the Trucking, general freight, 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
2023 3.0 3.0 10 0 0
2022 5.2 3.9 10 2 0
2021 2.8 2.8 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · IA · Dubuque

3,252 Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 217 employers in Dubuque, IA · 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 Sumner Terminal 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR M&C Trucking Company 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR UI 7524 (DALLAS - F) 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR TCW, INC CHARLOTTE 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Council Bluffs Prepared 226 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gerdau Ameristeel US Inc. 226 FTE
STATE-SIZE TSTI Newton 1550 226 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sudenga Industries Inc 226 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Dubuque Works 2,518 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center-Dubuque-MHS-IA/NE 1,296 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne Dubuque 1,285 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hirschbach Motor Lines, Inc 1,110 FTE
NAT-TCR Gunston Cove Rd. 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Escalante Concrete Construction, Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Fulton Fire Protection District 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Chatuge Regional Hospital 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE FKCI Midwest Offfice 226 FTE
NAT-SIZE COMANCO 226 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alltrista Plastics LLC 226 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amphenol Thermometrics, Inc. 226 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.