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

Best Way Transportation Inc

Palmer, TX · ~56 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

Best Way Transportation Inc runs at 100% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade C.

Best Way Transportation Inc: 4.5 TCR = 100% of Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Best Way Transportation Inc safety composite

Best Way Transportation Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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).

F

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

Best Way Transportation Inc: 1.9 → 4.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 6.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.94× in 2020

Best Way Transportation Inc's TCR rose 2.4 from 1.9 in 2016 to 4.2 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Palmer, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.5 · 100% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #235/297
  • PHOTO DMN Transport, Inc
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DMN Transport, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Best Way Transportation Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Best Way Transportation Inc averages 4.5 TCR (100% 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

Best Way Transportation Inc TCR series: 2016=1.9 · 2018=6.8 · 2019=5.1 · 2020=4.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Best Way Transportation Inc falls in its industry

3,252 Trucking, general freight, lon establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #235 safest of 297 Trucking, general freight, lon employers in Texas.

Best Way Transportation Inc (56 employees, TCR 4.5) 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 Best Way Transportation Inc
Best Way Transportation Inc (56 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Best Way Transportation Inc has fewer 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
2020 4.2 4.2 2 0 0
2019 5.1 1.7 3 0 0
2018 6.8 6.8 4 0 0
2016 1.9 1.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · TX · Palmer

3,252 Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 3 employers in Palmer, TX · 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 DMN Transport, Inc 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SFO LTL 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6223-631 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR GA001 - GA-Atlanta-Operating Center 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Native Texas Nursery 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dalhart Cattle Feeders 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oasis Gin, Inc 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Comyn GP Shelling Plant 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Uperio USA LLC TX 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spring Market #718 19 FTE
NAT-TCR Looks Great Services of Mississippi Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Bway Corporation 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Vector Laboratories, Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Northland Plastics Inc 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE EMC Precision 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Multicoop Del Oeste Inc. 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hct14-Bfspr-Courtyard Tysons 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Adaptive Nursing and Healthcare, Inc -New Albany 56 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.