General freight trucking, local · South Carolina

Baker Transportation

Lake City, SC · ~67 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Baker Transportation runs at 15% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General freight trucking, local workplace, earning a grade A.

Baker Transportation: 0.7 TCR = 15% of General freight trucking, local BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Baker Transportation safety composite

Baker Transportation scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Baker Transportation: 0.0 → 1.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.4 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

Baker Transportation's TCR rose 1.4 from 0.0 in 2023 to 1.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Lake City, SC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 15% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #2/63
  • PHOTO Howard Sheppard - Sa…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~67 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Howard Sheppard - Sandersville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Baker Transportation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Baker Transportation averages 0.7 TCR (15% of the General freight trucking, local BLS benchmark).

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

Baker Transportation TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Baker Transportation falls in its industry

2,784 General freight trucking, loca establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 63 General freight trucking, loca employers in South Carolina.

Baker Transportation (67 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Baker Transportation
Baker Transportation (67 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Baker Transportation has more employees than the General freight trucking, local median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · SC · Lake City

2,784 General freight trucking, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 14 employers in Lake City, SC · 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 Howard Sheppard - Sandersville 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Masyan Express, Inc 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lone Star Materials and Asphalt 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR CPG Newark 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Duncan Operations Center 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oconee 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Columbia Gas Crew Quarters 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cooper River Partners, LLC 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nan Ya Plastics Corporation, America 882 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lake City Community Hospital 280 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 621 278 FTE
CITY-NEAR 621 268 FTE
NAT-TCR Lacreek Electric Association, Inc. 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Chavez Farm Labor Contractor, Inc. 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Nvlsv - Las Vegas Global Business Services - Gbs 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Lubbock Tx Distribution Center 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE St Catherine's Manor of Washington Court House 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seward Operating, LLC 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Caledonia Spirits 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Guido Lumber Company Inc 67 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.