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

Central Freight Lines, Inc. - Waco Corporate

Waco, TX · ~179 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Central Freight Lines, Inc. - Waco Corporate runs at 25% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) workplace, earning a grade A.

Central Freight Lines, Inc. - Waco Corporate: 1.1 TCR = 25% of General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Central Freight Lines, Inc. - Waco Corporate safety composite

Central Freight Lines, Inc. - Waco Corporate scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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. - Waco Corporate: 0.5 → 0.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 3.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.8× in 2021

Central Freight Lines, Inc. - Waco Corporate's TCR rose 0.4 from 0.5 in 2016 to 0.9 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.7 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Waco, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 25% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #13/237
  • PHOTO BURNSED TRUCKING, INC.
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~179 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BURNSED TRUCKING, INC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Central Freight Lines, Inc. - Waco Corporate in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Central Freight Lines, Inc. - Waco Corporate averages 1.1 TCR (25% 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. - Waco Corporate TCR series: 2016=0.5 · 2017=0.4 · 2018=0 · 2020=3.7 · 2021=0.9 · BLS 4.5

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

3,020 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 97% 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 #13 safest of 237 General freight trucking, long employers in Texas.

Central Freight Lines, Inc. - Waco Corporate (179 employees, TCR 1.1) 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. - Waco Corporate
Central Freight Lines, Inc. - Waco Corporate (179 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Central Freight Lines, Inc. - Waco Corporate has more employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, median and a lower 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 0.9 0.9 2 0 0
2020 3.7 0.0 0 10 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.4 0.0 1 0 0
2016 0.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · TX · Waco

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 · 314 employers in Waco, 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 BURNSED TRUCKING, INC. 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR DFW CST NORTH 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR RSI 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hazel's Hot Shot, Inc 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Devon Energy - Cuero TX 179 FTE
STATE-SIZE FTW SOUTH OFFICE 901 ALTAMESA BLVD 179 FTE
STATE-SIZE Municipal District Services 179 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jasper Ventures Inc 179 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Hillcrest 1,512 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - AUS3 1,468 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-TXWAC1 1,407 FTE
CITY-NEAR L3Harris AS IAS Waco 1,400 FTE
NAT-TCR 570 - Hartford 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Wilbur Chocolate 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR GSF Conyers Liquid Products 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Outside Plant 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE DGI-Menard Inc. 179 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nexion Health 179 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vernon Manor HCC 179 FTE
NAT-SIZE Consolidated Carpet Workroom LLC 179 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, 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.