Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) · North Carolina

Chief Express, LLC

Seagrove, NC · ~70 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chief Express, LLC runs at 61% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade B.

Chief Express, LLC: 2.7 TCR = 61% of Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chief Express, LLC safety composite

Chief Express, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Chief Express, LLC: 0.0 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.5 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

Chief Express, LLC's TCR rose 5.5 from 0.0 in 2023 to 5.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Seagrove, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.7 · 61% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #53/125
  • PHOTO TransAm Trucking, In…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TransAm Trucking, Inc. - Olathe Main (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chief Express, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chief Express, LLC averages 2.7 TCR (61% of the Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

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

Chief Express, LLC TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=5.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Chief Express, LLC falls in its industry

3,252 Motor freight carrier, general establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #53 safest of 125 Motor freight carrier, general employers in North Carolina.

Chief Express, LLC (70 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Chief Express, LLC
Chief Express, LLC (70 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Chief Express, LLC has more employees than the Motor freight carrier, general, long-dis median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 5.5 5.5 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · NC · Seagrove

3,252 Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 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 TransAm Trucking, Inc. - Olathe Main 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arcadia (Onsite Walmart) 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR WDS Enterprises Inc. 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advantage Transportation Inc 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE SHARP FARM INC 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jackson Farming Company 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE ACT Power Services, LLC 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tram Lumber, LLC 23 FTE
NAT-TCR George P Johnson Torrance 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Rays Stairs Inc- SHOP 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Halcyon Construction Corp 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Southern Maryland Oil - LaPlata 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pacific Woodtech Corporation 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waterfront Hotel 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE DePere Facility 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holiday Inn Canton 70 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: 2024, 2023. 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.