General freight trucking, local · Illinois

Blackhawk Transport Berner

Name: Blackhawk Transport Berner Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Dakota, IL · ~35 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 10.7
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Blackhawk Transport Berner runs at 238% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, local workplace, earning a grade F.

Blackhawk Transport Berner: 10.7 TCR = 238% of General freight trucking, local BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blackhawk Transport Berner safety composite

Blackhawk Transport Berner scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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).

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 10.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers
DART rate: F 13.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Blackhawk Transport Berner: 3.5 → 17.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 17.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.26× in 2024

Blackhawk Transport Berner's TCR rose 14.5 from 3.5 in 2023 to 17.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Dakota, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.7 · 238% of ind

DART 13.5 DART
RANK #149/161
PHOTO Commercial Works Orl…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 9 inj
SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Commercial Works Orlando (0.0 TCR gap)

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10.7
Commercial Wor

10.7
DCC : 3679-00

10.7
DENVER (COCMR)

10.7
FASTRUCKING -

10.7

What this shows Blackhawk Transport Berner averages 10.7 TCR (238% of the General freight trucking, local BLS benchmark).

Blackhawk Transport Berner TCR series: 2023=3.5 · 2024=17.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Blackhawk Transport Berner falls in its industry

2,784 General freight trucking, loca establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #149 safest of 161 General freight trucking, loca employers in Illinois.

Blackhawk Transport Berner (35 employees, TCR 10.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Blackhawk Transport Berner has fewer employees than the General freight trucking, local median and a higher 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	17.9	13.5	8	0	0
2023	3.5	0.0	1	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · IL · Dakota

2,784 General freight trucking, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 3 employers in Dakota, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Commercial Works Orlando	ORLANDO, FL	10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	DCC : 3679-00 WaWa/Bridgeport, NJ	LOGAN TOWNSHIP, NJ	10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	DENVER (COCMR)	COMMERCE CITY, CO	10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	FASTRUCKING - LAX	RANCHO DOMINGUEZ, CA	10.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Dynegy Kendall Energy LLC	MINOOKA	35 FTE
STATE-SIZE	M.J.M. Electric Cooperative, Inc.	CARLINVILLE	35 FTE
STATE-SIZE	South Beloit Office	SOUTH BELOIT	35 FTE
STATE-SIZE	DuPage Water Commission	ELMHURST	35 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Berner Foods - Dakota	Dakota	728 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Dakota Coop	Dakota	20 FTE
NAT-TCR	Diversicare of Winfield	Winfield, AL	10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Milbridge Factory	Milbridge, ME	10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Collier Development Co., Inc d/b/a Country Cascades	Pigeon Forge, TN	10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Region 4 - KFalls	Klamath Falls, OR	10.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	District Office	Albany, OR	35 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Monroe 2	Monroe, WA	35 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Direct/DLNR-Aquatic Resources	Honolulu, HI	35 FTE
NAT-SIZE	13 Springfield, MO	Springfield, MO	35 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.