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

Central Freight Lines, Inc. - Phoenix

Phoenix, AZ · ~84 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Central Freight Lines, Inc. - Phoenix runs at 196% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) workplace, earning a grade D.

Central Freight Lines, Inc. - Phoenix: 8.8 TCR = 196% of General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Central Freight Lines, Inc. - Phoenix safety composite

Central Freight Lines, Inc. - Phoenix scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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 8.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Central Freight Lines, Inc. - Phoenix: 8.2 → 15.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 15.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.39× in 2021

Central Freight Lines, Inc. - Phoenix's TCR rose 7.6 from 8.2 in 2016 to 15.8 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Phoenix, AZ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.8 · 196% of ind

  • DART 12.3 DART
  • RANK #32/40
  • PHOTO R+L Carriers - MAN
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: R+L Carriers - MAN (0.0 TCR gap)

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Central Freight Lines, Inc. - Phoenix in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Central Freight Lines, Inc. - Phoenix averages 8.8 TCR (196% 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 2026-09-26

Central Freight Lines, Inc. - Phoenix TCR series: 2016=8.2 · 2017=9.5 · 2018=4.9 · 2019=5.4 · 2020=9.4 · 2021=15.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Central Freight Lines, Inc. - Phoenix falls in its industry

3,020 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 40 General freight trucking, long employers in Arizona.

Central Freight Lines, Inc. - Phoenix (84 employees, TCR 8.8) 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. - Phoenix
Central Freight Lines, Inc. - Phoenix (84 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Central Freight Lines, Inc. - Phoenix has more 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 15.8 12.3 8 1 0
2020 9.4 6.3 6 0 0
2019 5.4 4.0 4 0 0
2018 4.9 4.9 3 0 0
2017 9.5 6.3 6 0 0
2016 8.2 6.8 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · AZ · Phoenix

3,020 General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 2,630 employers in Phoenix, AZ · 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 R+L Carriers - MAN 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR LSL 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR XSF 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6284-HL-AK 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE DIRTT Environmental Solutions Phoenix 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arizona - 02 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2253-N0796 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Embassy Suites Tempe 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maricopa County 15,504 FTE
CITY-NEAR Phoenix Children's Hospital 7,575 FTE
CITY-NEAR All Company 6,261 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030500 6,153 FTE
NAT-TCR SiCar Farms .Ltd .Co 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Lakeville 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR West Coast Distribution Center 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Holiday Inn Express Peeksville 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE JD King Corporation 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Woodford Logistics 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cheyenne Healthcare Center 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Veritiv Operating Company - IL121 84 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.