General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) · Texas

Central Freight Lines, Inc - Dallas

Dallas, TX · ~49 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Central Freight Lines, Inc - Dallas runs at 240% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) workplace, earning a grade F.

Central Freight Lines, Inc - Dallas: 10.8 TCR = 240% of General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Central Freight Lines, Inc - Dallas safety composite

Central Freight Lines, Inc - Dallas scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−0.5

2017→2021

Central Freight Lines, Inc - Dallas injury rate improved

Central Freight Lines, Inc - Dallas's TCR fell 0.5 from 8.4 in 2017 to 7.8 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 16.2 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.4 · 2020=16.2 · 2021=7.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Dallas, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.8 · 240% of ind

  • DART 7.8 DART
  • RANK #220/237
  • PHOTO Central Transport - …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Central Transport - 938 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Central Freight Lines, Inc - Dallas in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Central Freight Lines, Inc - Dallas averages 10.8 TCR (240% of the General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS benchmark).

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

Central Freight Lines, Inc - Dallas TCR series: 2017=8.4 · 2020=16.2 · 2021=7.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Central Freight Lines, Inc - Dallas falls in its industry

3,020 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #220 safest of 237 General freight trucking, long employers in Texas.

Central Freight Lines, Inc - Dallas (49 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Central Freight Lines, Inc - Dallas
Central Freight Lines, Inc - Dallas (49 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Central Freight Lines, Inc - Dallas has fewer employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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
2021 7.8 7.8 3 0 0
2020 16.2 0.0 1 0 0
2017 8.4 8.4 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · TX · Dallas

3,020 General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 2,187 employers in Dallas, 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 Central Transport - 938 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 318 BOLINGBROOK 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABF Freight 321 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR IMT 10.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE WOLF CREEK FEED YARD 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Friona Feedyard 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spandet Dairy Friona 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vist Grande Dairy 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR AECOM DCS (US Operations) 15,100 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rexel USA, Inc 8,356 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1 CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER OF DALLAS 6,147 FTE
CITY-NEAR HDQ - Headquarters 5,764 FTE
NAT-TCR Hard Rock Concrete Cutting 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Boydstun Equipment Manufacturing, LLC 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Rolling Hills Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 5472-NAI-0034-0034-01096 10.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dc 2 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Royal Park Retirement 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marrington School of the Arts 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Province Place of DePaul 49 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: 2021, 2020, 2017. 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.