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

Carter Express - Madison, AL Drop Lot

Madison, AL · ~108 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Carter Express - Madison, AL Drop Lot runs at 97% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade C.

Carter Express - Madison, AL Drop Lot: 4.4 TCR = 97% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carter Express - Madison, AL Drop Lot safety composite

Carter Express - Madison, AL Drop Lot scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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

−4.8

2022→2024

Carter Express - Madison, AL Drop Lot injury rate improved

Carter Express - Madison, AL Drop Lot's TCR fell 4.8 from 6.5 in 2022 to 1.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=6.5 · 2023=5.0 · 2024=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Madison, AL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.4 · 97% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #56/90
  • PHOTO North Atlanta
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~108 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: North Atlanta (0.0 TCR gap)

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Carter Express - Madison, AL Drop Lot in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carter Express - Madison, AL Drop Lot averages 4.4 TCR (97% 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 - Madison, AL Drop Lot TCR series: 2022=6.5 · 2023=5 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Carter Express - Madison, AL Drop Lot falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #56 safest of 90 General freight trucking, long employers in Alabama.

Carter Express - Madison, AL Drop Lot (108 employees, TCR 4.4) 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 - Madison, AL Drop Lot
Carter Express - Madison, AL Drop Lot (108 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Carter Express - Madison, AL Drop Lot 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 1.7 1.7 2 1 0
2023 5.0 3.7 7 1 0
2022 6.5 6.5 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · AL · Madison

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 131 employers in Madison, AL · 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 North Atlanta 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6223-324 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR AZ007 - AZ-Phoenix-Operating Center 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hill Bros. Transportation Inc. 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cullman Electric Cooperative 108 FTE
STATE-SIZE Performance Contractors, Inc. - Mitisubishi 108 FTE
STATE-SIZE McCartney Construction Company Inc 108 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mobile, AL - Jackson, MS HVAC 108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mazda Toyota Manufacturing USA Inc 4,226 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mazda Toyota Manufacturing, U.S.A., Inc. 1,881 FTE
CITY-NEAR Polaris Industries 1,604 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0580 - Huntsville DC 1,312 FTE
NAT-TCR NA-US-CA-Fremont-44320-44350 Nobel Dr 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR TAMKO Building Products LLC - Frederick 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ramsett Mechanical 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Waconia Middle School 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Innovative Integrated Health, Inc.- OC PACE for Seniors 108 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seretta Construction Mid-Atlantic, LLC 108 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Eagle #0005 108 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clinton Construction 108 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.