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

Bison Transport USA - Kutztown

Kutztown, PA · ~79 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bison Transport USA - Kutztown runs at 132% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade D.

Bison Transport USA - Kutztown: 6.0 TCR = 132% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bison Transport USA - Kutztown safety composite

Bison Transport USA - Kutztown scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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)
F 5.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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

−7.8

2023→2024

Bison Transport USA - Kutztown injury rate improved

Bison Transport USA - Kutztown's TCR fell 7.8 from 9.9 in 2023 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=9.9 · 2024=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Kutztown, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 132% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #132/172
  • PHOTO JK Hackl Transportat…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~79 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: JK Hackl Transportation Services, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bison Transport USA - Kutztown in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bison Transport USA - Kutztown averages 6.0 TCR (132% 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

Bison Transport USA - Kutztown TCR series: 2023=9.9 · 2024=2 · BLS 4.5

Where Bison Transport USA - Kutztown falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #132 safest of 172 General freight trucking, long employers in Pennsylvania.

Bison Transport USA - Kutztown (79 employees, TCR 6.0) 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 Bison Transport USA - Kutztown
Bison Transport USA - Kutztown (79 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Bison Transport USA - Kutztown 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 2.0 1.5 4 0 0
2023 9.9 9.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · PA · Kutztown

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 43 employers in Kutztown, PA · 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 JK Hackl Transportation Services, Inc 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Master Fleet - Neenah 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Middletown Terminal 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6836-ATL 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE John C. Leo & Son, LLC 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE C.J. Mushroom Co., LLC 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ernst Conservation Seeds Inc 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Specialty Egg 79 FTE
CITY-NEAR DC 30 - Kutztown, PA 521 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advance Auto Parts DC 30 478 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jetson Specialty Marketing Services Inc 413 FTE
CITY-NEAR WIRE AND CABLE 253 FTE
NAT-TCR True North Equipment Grand Forks 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Irondequoit 10246 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Harwood Place 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CLR Inc 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Middle School 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE AMESBURY-MA02 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE East Bank Center 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE FXI - Portage 79 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.