General Freight Trucking Long-Distance Less Than Truckload · North Dakota

Central Transport - 581

Fargo, ND · ~17 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Central Transport - 581 runs at 78% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General Freight Trucking Long-Distance Less Than Truckload workplace, earning a grade B.

Central Transport - 581: 3.5 TCR = 78% of General Freight Trucking Long-Distance Less Than Truckload BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Central Transport - 581 safety composite

Central Transport - 581 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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).

D

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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 Transport - 581: 9.5 → 10.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.4 TCR · DART/TCR 2.98× in 2024

Central Transport - 581's TCR rose 0.9 from 9.5 in 2016 to 10.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Fargo, ND AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.5 · 78% of ind

  • DART 10.4 DART
  • RANK #6/10
  • PHOTO Central Transport - …
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Central Transport - 330 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Central Transport - 581 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Central Transport - 581 averages 3.5 TCR (78% of the General Freight Trucking Long-Distance Less Than Truckload BLS benchmark).

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

Central Transport - 581 TCR series: 2016=9.5 · 2017=0 · 2018=8.2 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=10.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Central Transport - 581 falls in its industry

3,020 General Freight Trucking Long- establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 10 General Freight Trucking Long- employers in North Dakota.

Central Transport - 581 (17 employees, TCR 3.5) 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 Transport - 581
Central Transport - 581 (17 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Central Transport - 581 has fewer employees than the General Freight Trucking Long-Distance L 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
2024 10.4 10.4 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 8.2 8.2 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 9.5 9.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · ND · Fargo

3,020 General Freight Trucking Long-Distance Less Than Truckload employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,696 rated employers in North Dakota with headcount on file · 415 employers in Fargo, ND · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Central Transport - 330 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corbin/London KY FXFE-CRB 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 53-BINGHAMTON TERMINAL 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR DAY-ODFL 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Main Office (WSTWH) 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vigen Construction- Drayton 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE G & R Controls - Fargo 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maviro Inc - Mandan 17 FTE
CITY-NEAR ND,Fargo-Medical Center-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals 2,963 FTE
CITY-NEAR ND,FARGO - North Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 2,722 FTE
CITY-NEAR ND,FARGO - Fargo Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 2,568 FTE
CITY-NEAR ND,Fargo-Broadway Hospital-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals 2,547 FTE
NAT-TCR Central Transport - 330 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Muncy 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Trautman Lawn and Landscape 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Oakmont of Segovia 3.5 TCR

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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 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.