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

Carter Express - Laredo, TX

Laredo, TX · ~223 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Carter Express - Laredo, TX runs at 33% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade A.

Carter Express - Laredo, TX: 1.5 TCR = 33% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carter Express - Laredo, TX safety composite

Carter Express - Laredo, TX scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).

C

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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

Carter Express - Laredo, TX: 1.5 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.17× in 2024

Carter Express - Laredo, TX's TCR rose 0.6 from 1.5 in 2022 to 2.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Laredo, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 33% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #80/297
  • PHOTO TTI- San Antonio, TX
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~223 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TTI- San Antonio, TX (0.0 TCR gap)

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Carter Express - Laredo, TX in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carter Express - Laredo, TX averages 1.5 TCR (33% 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

Carter Express - Laredo, TX TCR series: 2022=1.5 · 2023=1 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Carter Express - Laredo, TX falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 79% 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 #80 safest of 297 General freight trucking, long employers in Texas.

Carter Express - Laredo, TX (223 employees, TCR 1.5) 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 Carter Express - Laredo, TX
Carter Express - Laredo, TX (223 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Carter Express - Laredo, TX has more employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, median and a lower 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 2.1 1.8 7 0 0
2023 1.0 1.0 3 0 0
2022 1.5 1.1 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · TX · Laredo

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 245 employers in Laredo, 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 TTI- San Antonio, TX 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hegins, PA - 79 Park Lane 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR HENIFF TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS - CHARLOTTE, NC (OLD STATESVILLE ROAD) 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR UNDERWOOD & WELD COMPANY INC 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Chase Center Office 223 FTE
STATE-SIZE Norrell Construction 223 FTE
STATE-SIZE James Construction Group LLC -Belton, Tx 223 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ameripack Foods LLC 223 FTE
CITY-NEAR Office of Field Operations - Laredo 3,395 FTE
CITY-NEAR U.S. Border Patrol Sector - Laredo 1,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2576-21080000-21080 748 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2576-62 672 FTE
NAT-TCR Americold Logistics, LLC: Sumter 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Enid Flour Mill 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Carnegie Robotics LLC 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ascorium North America, Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Grant County PUD #2 - Power Production 223 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5064 Kaleida Erie County Medical Center 223 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Madison 223 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harrison 223 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. 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.