Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) · Tennessee

Colonial Freight Systems, Inc. Nashville Clerical

Nashville, TN · ~28 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Colonial Freight Systems, Inc. Nashville Clerical runs at 200% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade D.

Colonial Freight Systems, Inc. Nashville Clerical: 9.0 TCR = 200% of Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Colonial Freight Systems, Inc. Nashville Clerical safety composite

Colonial Freight Systems, Inc. Nashville Clerical scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 17.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Colonial Freight Systems, Inc. Nashville Clerical: 0.0 → 18.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 18.0 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2020

Colonial Freight Systems, Inc. Nashville Clerical's TCR rose 18.0 from 0.0 in 2019 to 18.0 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Nashville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 9.0 · 200% of ind

  • DART 18.0 DART
  • RANK #124/128
  • PHOTO UCS 4812 (Dearborn -…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: UCS 4812 (Dearborn - M) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Colonial Freight Systems, Inc. Nashville Clerical in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Colonial Freight Systems, Inc. Nashville Clerical averages 9.0 TCR (200% of the Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

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

Colonial Freight Systems, Inc. Nashville Clerical TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=18 · BLS 4.5

Where Colonial Freight Systems, Inc. Nashville Clerical falls in its industry

3,252 Trucking, general freight, lon establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #124 safest of 128 Trucking, general freight, lon employers in Tennessee.

Colonial Freight Systems, Inc. Nashville Clerical (28 employees, TCR 9.0) 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 Colonial Freight Systems, Inc. Nashville Clerical
Colonial Freight Systems, Inc. Nashville Clerical (28 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Colonial Freight Systems, Inc. Nashville Clerical has fewer employees than the Trucking, general freight, long-distance median and a higher 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
2020 18.0 18.0 0 8 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · TN · Nashville

3,252 Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 1,187 employers in Nashville, TN · 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 UCS 4812 (Dearborn - M) 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6223-793 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Royal Palm, FL 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marion Location 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE K&K Tobacco Farms LLC 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tosh Pork Martin 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE UCEMC Livingston 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lashlee-Rich, Inc. 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parallon Enterprises, LLC 15,267 FTE
CITY-NEAR METROPOLITAN GOVT. OF NASHVILLE,& DAVIDSON COUNTY 10,278 FTE
CITY-NEAR METRO NASHVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS 9,049 FTE
CITY-NEAR TriStar Centennial Medical Center 3,106 FTE
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #4026 SANTA ANA, CA 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Renfroe & Jackson 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Spring Haven Retirement 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon Transportation Services : JAX5 9.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brevard Water Conditioning, Inc. 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE E.R. Stuebner, Inc. 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jobs On Site 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Out of the Blue Finishing Solutions 28 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: 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.