General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Truckload · Minnesota

Dawson Terminal

Dawson, MN · ~37 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dawson Terminal runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Truckload workplace, earning a grade A.

Dawson Terminal: 1.3 TCR = 28% of General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Truckload BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dawson Terminal safety composite

Dawson Terminal scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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%).

Dawson Terminal held a steady TCR band

Dawson Terminal's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=1.3 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=2.8 · 2021=0.0 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Dawson, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 28% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/74
  • PHOTO St Louis, MO - Hall …
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: St Louis, MO - Hall St Bldg 8 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dawson Terminal in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dawson Terminal averages 1.3 TCR (28% of the General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Truckload BLS benchmark).

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

Dawson Terminal TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=1.3 · 2018=0 · 2019=2.8 · 2021=0 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Dawson Terminal falls in its industry

3,252 General Freight Trucking, Long establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 74 General Freight Trucking, Long employers in Minnesota.

Dawson Terminal (37 employees, TCR 1.3) 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 Dawson Terminal
Dawson Terminal (37 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Dawson Terminal has fewer employees than the General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 4.8 4.8 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.8 0.0 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 1.3 0.0 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · MN · Dawson

3,252 General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Truckload employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 7 employers in Dawson, 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 St Louis, MO - Hall St Bldg 8 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR PAM Transport - North Little Rock, AR 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shop/Office 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lansing, MI - S. Creyts 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Betaseed Inc - Shakopee 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pals 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Supply Support 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grand Rapids Public Utilities Commission 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR Johnson Memorial Health Services 266 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lac qui Parle County ISD 378 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR Puris Dawson 94 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ag Processing Inc 59 FTE
NAT-TCR Location 12 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Border Demolition & Environmental, Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Amarillo Cotton Warehouse, L.P. 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Division 30 - North Island Fuels 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dayton Terminal 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Indiana 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hopewell 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE SWZ Services, Inc. 37 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, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.