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

Carter Express - Vandalia, OH

Vandalia, OH · ~181 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Carter Express - Vandalia, OH runs at 46% 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 - Vandalia, OH: 2.0 TCR = 46% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carter Express - Vandalia, OH safety composite

Carter Express - Vandalia, OH scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 49%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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%).

Carter Express - Vandalia, OH held a steady TCR band

Carter Express - Vandalia, OH's TCR held near 0.1 from 2.0 in 2022 to 2.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=2.0 · 2023=2.0 · 2024=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Vandalia, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 2.0 · 46% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #60/186
  • PHOTO Tuente Trucking Inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~181 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tuente Trucking Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Carter Express - Vandalia, OH in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carter Express - Vandalia, OH averages 2.0 TCR (46% 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 - Vandalia, OH TCR series: 2022=2 · 2023=2 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Carter Express - Vandalia, OH falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #60 safest of 186 General freight trucking, long employers in Ohio.

Carter Express - Vandalia, OH (181 employees, TCR 2.0) 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 - Vandalia, OH
Carter Express - Vandalia, OH (181 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Carter Express - Vandalia, OH 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 2.1 5 0 0
2023 2.0 1.2 5 0 0
2022 2.0 1.6 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · OH · Vandalia

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 85 employers in Vandalia, OH · 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 Tuente Trucking Inc 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ploger Transportation 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Triple J Enterprise Inc 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dedicated Oregon 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE FirstEnergy Generation Support Staff 181 FTE
STATE-SIZE Athens Foods Inc 181 FTE
STATE-SIZE A&P Technology 181 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buckeye Diamond Logistics 181 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - LUK2 2,382 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crocs Inc. Cayman 605 FTE
CITY-NEAR Energizer Holdings - Global Auto Care - Dayton 415 FTE
CITY-NEAR All Service Plastic Molding, Inc. Falls Creek 408 FTE
NAT-TCR NA-US-CA-Marina Del Rey-Alla Road 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Transport - 322 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Eagle #1842 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lear Corporation - Detroit Conner 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Diversified Human Services, Inc. 181 FTE
NAT-SIZE Franklin Wi - 3195 181 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bison Metals Technologies, LLC 181 FTE
NAT-SIZE Merrillville in - 3504 181 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.