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

DANCOR TRANSIT INC Van Buren Ark.

Van Buren, AR · ~85 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

DANCOR TRANSIT INC Van Buren Ark. runs at 59% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade B.

DANCOR TRANSIT INC Van Buren Ark.: 2.7 TCR = 59% of Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DANCOR TRANSIT INC Van Buren Ark. safety composite

DANCOR TRANSIT INC Van Buren Ark. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 46%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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

DANCOR TRANSIT INC Van Buren Ark.: 2.3 → 3.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 3.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.87× in 2018

DANCOR TRANSIT INC Van Buren Ark.'s TCR rose 0.8 from 2.3 in 2017 to 3.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Van Buren, AR AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.7 · 59% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #51/73
  • PHOTO Lockbourne, OH - Ash…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~85 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lockbourne, OH - Ashville Pike (0.0 TCR gap)

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DANCOR TRANSIT INC Van Buren Ark. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DANCOR TRANSIT INC Van Buren Ark. averages 2.7 TCR (59% 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

DANCOR TRANSIT INC Van Buren Ark. TCR series: 2017=2.3 · 2018=3.1 · BLS 4.5

Where DANCOR TRANSIT INC Van Buren Ark. falls in its industry

3,252 Motor freight carrier, general establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #51 safest of 73 Motor freight carrier, general employers in Arkansas.

DANCOR TRANSIT INC Van Buren Ark. (85 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 DANCOR TRANSIT INC Van Buren Ark.
DANCOR TRANSIT INC Van Buren Ark. (85 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

DANCOR TRANSIT INC Van Buren Ark. 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
2018 3.1 2.3 3 1 0
2017 2.3 2.3 0 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · AR · Van Buren

3,252 Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 71 employers in Van Buren, AR · 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 Lockbourne, OH - Ashville Pike 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Deep South Freight 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR PA-Tunkhannock 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midwest Carriers 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ritter Production Farms (Berry Farm) 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brother's Construction 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Starko Inc./ACR Construction 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mechanical 85 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Buren Drivers 1,245 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Buren Plant 1,089 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Buren General Office 850 FTE
CITY-NEAR VBR 751 FTE
NAT-TCR Sunoco Mariner East 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Norris Sales Company Inc. 2 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Infusion Partners (CarePoint Partners - Youngstown) - 1142 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Liberty Container 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Corporate Office 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE KTL 53031 Indianapolis 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Millwood Inc. - South River 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Craig HomeCare-Topeka 85 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: 2018, 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.