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

Central Freight Lines - Little Rock AR

Little Rock, AR · ~22 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Central Freight Lines - Little Rock AR runs at 283% 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 - Little Rock AR: 12.7 TCR = 283% of General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Central Freight Lines - Little Rock AR safety composite

Central Freight Lines - Little Rock AR scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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 - Little Rock AR: 0.0 → 19.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 31.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.04× in 2021

Central Freight Lines - Little Rock AR's TCR rose 19.8 from 0.0 in 2018 to 19.8 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 31.1 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Little Rock, AR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.7 · 283% of ind

  • DART 13.2 DART
  • RANK #46/46
  • PHOTO Reno 020
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Reno 020 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Central Freight Lines - Little Rock AR in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Central Freight Lines - Little Rock AR averages 12.7 TCR (283% 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 - Little Rock AR TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=31.1 · 2021=19.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Central Freight Lines - Little Rock AR falls in its industry

3,020 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #46 safest of 46 General freight trucking, long employers in Arkansas.

Central Freight Lines - Little Rock AR (22 employees, TCR 12.7) 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 - Little Rock AR
Central Freight Lines - Little Rock AR (22 employees, TCR 12.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Central Freight Lines - Little Rock AR 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 19.8 13.2 3 0 0
2020 31.1 24.9 5 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · AR · Little Rock

3,020 General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 446 employers in Little Rock, AR · 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 Reno 020 12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Transport - 171 171SH 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ACC-BNA 12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Medford 017 12.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Peco Foods Inc.-Truck Shop 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Morrilton Hatchery 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berryville Growout 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thomas B. Fitzhugh Generating Station 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arkansas Children's Hospital 3,946 FTE
CITY-NEAR LITCX0UPS LIT - UPS 3,415 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - LIT1 2,510 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Health Medical Center - Little Rock 2,500 FTE
NAT-TCR Martin Tractor Inc Brimfield IL 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR MMK Signal Hill 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR TENMET 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 175994-Ind-New Augusta Br 12.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Home City Ice Company - Pacific - 440 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Nursery 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Home City Ice Company - Bridgeport - 560 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Home City Ice Company - Bethel Park - 410 22 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.