Motor freight carrier, general, local · Georgia

Colonial Cartage Corporation

Acworth, GA · ~101 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Colonial Cartage Corporation runs at 35% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Motor freight carrier, general, local workplace, earning a grade A.

Colonial Cartage Corporation: 1.6 TCR = 35% of Motor freight carrier, general, local BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Colonial Cartage Corporation safety composite

Colonial Cartage Corporation scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−1.1

2022→2024

Colonial Cartage Corporation injury rate improved

Colonial Cartage Corporation's TCR fell 1.1 from 2.0 in 2022 to 0.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=2.0 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Acworth, GA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 35% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #16/122
  • PHOTO General Freight Truc…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~101 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: General Freight Trucking (0.0 TCR gap)

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Colonial Cartage Corporation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Colonial Cartage Corporation averages 1.6 TCR (35% of the Motor freight carrier, general, local BLS benchmark).

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

Colonial Cartage Corporation TCR series: 2022=2 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=0.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Colonial Cartage Corporation falls in its industry

2,784 Motor freight carrier, general establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 122 Motor freight carrier, general employers in Georgia.

Colonial Cartage Corporation (101 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Colonial Cartage Corporation
Colonial Cartage Corporation (101 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Colonial Cartage Corporation has more employees than the Motor freight carrier, general, local median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2023 1.9 1.9 2 0 0
2022 2.0 2.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · GA · Acworth

2,784 Motor freight carrier, general, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 73 employers in Acworth, GA · 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 General Freight Trucking 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR CnR Trucking & Cattle Company, Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR KSKCI - KANSAS CITY 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR VAMPK - RICHMOND 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Unlimited Contract Services - Edwards, MS 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMICALOLA EMC- HDQ 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amec Foster Wheeler MOS Group 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE Affinity Building Systems 101 FTE
CITY-NEAR Inalfa Roof Systems - Cherokee Campus 698 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jacobs Telecommunications 441 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chief Specialty Packaging 422 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3748 361 FTE
NAT-TCR Evergreen State Electric, Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Remington Plant 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR RPM Innovations, Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 3628 - CQ FM 1960 West 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE West Kentucky Rural Electric Coop Corp 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nikel Precision Group, LLC 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3320 - DC New York Ave NE 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3347 - LA 18th and La Cienega 101 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, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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