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

Carter Express - Romulus, MI

Romulus, MI · ~72 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Carter Express - Romulus, MI runs at 66% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade B.

Carter Express - Romulus, MI: 3.0 TCR = 66% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carter Express - Romulus, MI safety composite

Carter Express - Romulus, MI scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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 - Romulus, MI: 1.2 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.36× in 2024

Carter Express - Romulus, MI's TCR rose 2.8 from 1.2 in 2022 to 4.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Romulus, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.0 · 66% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #46/89
  • PHOTO Rayne
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~72 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rayne (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Michigan employers → · Look up another →

Carter Express - Romulus, MI in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carter Express - Romulus, MI averages 3.0 TCR (66% 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 - Romulus, MI TCR series: 2022=1.2 · 2023=3.7 · 2024=4 · BLS 4.5

Where Carter Express - Romulus, MI falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #46 safest of 89 General freight trucking, long employers in Michigan.

Carter Express - Romulus, MI (72 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 Carter Express - Romulus, MI
Carter Express - Romulus, MI (72 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Carter Express - Romulus, MI 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 4.0 4.0 4 0 0
2023 3.7 2.8 4 0 0
2022 1.2 1.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · MI · Romulus

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 199 employers in Romulus, MI · 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 Rayne 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Climate Express Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 69907 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Point Dedicated Laredo 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Driven Grow LLC 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elite Apple Company, LLC 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lynn Mayer's Great Lakes Glads, Inc. 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Navitas House 72 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : DTW1 3,720 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - DTW1 3,502 FTE
CITY-NEAR Romulus Powertrain 1,336 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Motors Romulus 1,037 FTE
NAT-TCR Rayne 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Radin Logistics LLC 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Houston Sales Location 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Okmulgee Indian Clinic 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE NA-US-CA-Long Beach-1800 E Spring St 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE EH Mid Dakota Bismarck Gateway Clinic 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Entertainment Merchandise NY, INC 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Freedom Delivery Team LLC 72 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.