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

Central Freight Lines - Waco

Waco, TX · ~33 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Central Freight Lines - Waco runs at 248% 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 - Waco: 11.2 TCR = 248% of General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Central Freight Lines - Waco safety composite

Central Freight Lines - Waco scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

−9.3

2018→2021

Central Freight Lines - Waco injury rate improved

Central Freight Lines - Waco's TCR fell 9.3 from 14.3 in 2018 to 5.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 21.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=14.3 · 2019=4.1 · 2020=21.3 · 2021=5.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 11.2 · 248% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK #223/237
  • PHOTO XEE
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: XEE (0.0 TCR gap)

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Central Freight Lines - Waco in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Central Freight Lines - Waco averages 11.2 TCR (248% 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 - Waco TCR series: 2018=14.3 · 2019=4.1 · 2020=21.3 · 2021=5 · BLS 4.5

Where Central Freight Lines - Waco falls in its industry

3,020 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 10% 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 #223 safest of 237 General freight trucking, long employers in Texas.

Central Freight Lines - Waco (33 employees, TCR 11.2) 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 - Waco
Central Freight Lines - Waco (33 employees, TCR 11.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Central Freight Lines - Waco 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 5.0 5.0 1 0 0
2020 21.3 12.8 5 0 0
2019 4.1 4.1 1 0 0
2018 14.3 7.1 4 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 XEE 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6284-RW-BKF 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR XPH 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR AZ-Phoenix-871-Reddaway 11.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE SW Seed Company New Deal 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Treesap Farms LLC - Houston 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tejas Feeders LLC 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pilgrims LIVE OPERATIONS 33 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 Blaine Brothers, Inc - Scanlon 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Choice Products USA, LLC 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Drury Inn & Suites - Jackson Ridgeland 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Dutchmen Plant 810 11.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Madison Hose Co. #1 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE DSM Nutritional Products - Ames 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE KG Marketing & Bag Co. 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE PSSI - 1002 Stampede Meats - Santa Teresa 33 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.