Refrigerated products trucking, local · Ohio

Caruso Trucking, LLC

Cincinnati, OH · ~288 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Caruso Trucking, LLC runs at 203% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Refrigerated products trucking, local workplace, earning a grade F.

Caruso Trucking, LLC: 9.1 TCR = 203% of Refrigerated products trucking, local BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Caruso Trucking, LLC safety composite

Caruso Trucking, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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).

F

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Caruso Trucking, LLC: 6.0 → 12.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 12.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.08× in 2022

Caruso Trucking, LLC's TCR rose 6.6 from 6.0 in 2019 to 12.5 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484220 · Cincinnati, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.1 · 203% of ind

  • DART 9.8 DART
  • RANK #69/72
  • PHOTO TLSI - Transport - R…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 91 inj
  • SIZE ~288 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TLSI - Transport - Richmond (0.0 TCR gap)

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Caruso Trucking, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Caruso Trucking, LLC averages 9.1 TCR (203% of the Refrigerated products trucking, local BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Caruso Trucking, LLC TCR series: 2019=6 · 2020=7.7 · 2021=10.3 · 2022=12.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Caruso Trucking, LLC falls in its industry

1,130 Refrigerated products trucking establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #69 safest of 72 Refrigerated products trucking employers in Ohio.

Caruso Trucking, LLC (288 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Caruso Trucking, LLC
Caruso Trucking, LLC (288 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Caruso Trucking, LLC has more employees than the Refrigerated products trucking, local median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2022 12.5 9.8 28 0 0
2021 10.3 8.2 24 0 0
2020 7.7 7.7 20 0 0
2019 6.0 5.3 19 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484220 · OH · Cincinnati

1,130 Refrigerated products trucking, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 1,513 employers in Cincinnati, 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 TLSI - Transport - Richmond 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Professional Auto Transport 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Antonini Bros. Inc. Huron 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Statewide Hauling 9.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE BTPS/Bookmasters, Inc 288 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mercury Plastics 288 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bway Cincinnati 288 FTE
STATE-SIZE PROGRESSIVE STAMPING, INC. 288 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center 17,011 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cincinnati Operations 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain : Evendale, OH 7,118 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain Evendale OH 6,400 FTE
NAT-TCR 6458-ZELI 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR LAX - Inflight 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Brian Center Health & Rehabilitation/Wallace 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Hospice by the Sea- Area 1 9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 6458-ZSJO 288 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6458-ZMTG 288 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1087 - Burnsville Mn Whse 288 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0304 - Brookfield Ct Whse 288 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.