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

Blackhawk Transport Inc

Beloit, WI · ~419 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Blackhawk Transport Inc runs at 96% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade C.

Blackhawk Transport Inc: 4.3 TCR = 96% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blackhawk Transport Inc safety composite

Blackhawk Transport Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 3%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 3% 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

−5.4

2019→2024

Blackhawk Transport Inc injury rate improved

Blackhawk Transport Inc's TCR fell 5.4 from 7.3 in 2019 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=7.3 · 2020=6.2 · 2021=2.7 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Beloit, WI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.3 · 96% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #101/145
  • PHOTO RL Transport, LLC
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 131 inj
  • SIZE ~419 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RL Transport, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Blackhawk Transport Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blackhawk Transport Inc averages 4.3 TCR (96% 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

Blackhawk Transport Inc TCR series: 2019=7.3 · 2020=6.2 · 2021=2.7 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=2 · BLS 4.5

Where Blackhawk Transport Inc falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #101 safest of 145 General freight trucking, long employers in Wisconsin.

Blackhawk Transport Inc (419 employees, TCR 4.3) 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 Blackhawk Transport Inc
Blackhawk Transport Inc (419 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Blackhawk Transport Inc 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 1.0 6 0 0
2023 4.3 4.3 10 0 0
2022 3.4 1.8 13 0 1
2021 2.7 1.5 9 0 0
2020 6.2 3.2 41 2 0
2019 7.3 4.0 52 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · WI · Beloit

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 110 employers in Beloit, WI · 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 RL Transport, LLC 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mies & Sons - Colwich 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR S&J Potashnick Transp., Inc 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR HDS-Wilmington 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE La Crosse Office 419 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nekoosa 419 FTE
STATE-SIZE SGPPL-Portage 420 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grafton Division 418 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - JVL1 1,309 FTE
CITY-NEAR Beloit Health System 1,206 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kerry Ingredients 944 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kerry Beloit 938 FTE
NAT-TCR Putnam Machine Products 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Pacific Coast Drilling Company, Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Fire Department 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Belmont Village West Lake 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE IKEA #019 Joliet 419 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lakeland Fresh Kitchen Manufacturing 419 FTE
NAT-SIZE United Auto Supply State Fair 419 FTE
NAT-SIZE Honeywell International Inc. 419 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.