Motor freight carrier, general, local · Minnesota

Contact Cartage Inc.

Minneapolis, MN · ~49 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Contact Cartage Inc. runs at 117% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Motor freight carrier, general, local workplace, earning a grade C.

Contact Cartage Inc.: 5.3 TCR = 117% of Motor freight carrier, general, local BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Contact Cartage Inc. safety composite

Contact Cartage Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Contact Cartage Inc.: 2.0 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 10.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.7× in 2020

Contact Cartage Inc.'s TCR rose 1.7 from 2.0 in 2017 to 3.7 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 10.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Minneapolis, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.3 · 117% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #25/51
  • PHOTO Kutzler Express, Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kutzler Express, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Contact Cartage Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Contact Cartage Inc. averages 5.3 TCR (117% 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

Contact Cartage Inc. TCR series: 2017=2 · 2019=10.1 · 2020=3.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Contact Cartage Inc. falls in its industry

2,784 Motor freight carrier, general establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 51 Motor freight carrier, general employers in Minnesota.

Contact Cartage Inc. (49 employees, TCR 5.3) 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 Contact Cartage Inc.
Contact Cartage Inc. (49 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Contact Cartage Inc. has more employees than the Motor freight carrier, general, local median and a higher 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
2020 3.7 3.7 2 0 0
2019 10.1 4.0 5 0 0
2017 2.0 2.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · MN · Minneapolis

2,784 Motor freight carrier, general, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 1,321 employers in Minneapolis, MN · 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 Kutzler Express, Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR TA Services Midlothian, TX 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR JIM MANSELL TRUCKING, INC 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chrysler St Louis TSP 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Impact Power Solutions 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lodermeier's Inc 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glass & Mirror Inc. 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Progressive Building Systems, Ltd 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Minnesota Twin Cities 22,522 FTE
CITY-NEAR MN950 MN TELECOMMUTER 12,021 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0501 - City Center 8,459 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hennepin County Medical Center 7,030 FTE
NAT-TCR Upper Peninsula Telephone Company 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Blakely Plant 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Nw Houston, Tx 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Patuxent River Health and Rehabilitation Center 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Xanitos EVS at Phoenixville Hospital - Tower Health 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Acme Laundry 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sioux Automation Center 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Gregory Hotel 49 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, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.