General Freight Trucking,Local · Pennsylvania

DED - Independent Container Line

West Chester, PA · ~56 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DED - Independent Container Line runs at 313% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General Freight Trucking,Local workplace, earning a grade F.

DED - Independent Container Line: 14.1 TCR = 313% of General Freight Trucking,Local BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DED - Independent Container Line safety composite

DED - Independent Container Line scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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)
F 14.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

DED - Independent Container Line: 8.2 → 19.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 19.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

DED - Independent Container Line's TCR rose 11.8 from 8.2 in 2023 to 19.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · West Chester, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.1 · 313% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #181/194
  • PHOTO Frank Beverage Group…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Frank Beverage Group - Sussex (0.1 TCR gap)

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DED - Independent Container Line in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DED - Independent Container Line averages 14.1 TCR (313% of the General Freight Trucking,Local BLS benchmark).

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

DED - Independent Container Line TCR series: 2023=8.2 · 2024=19.9 · BLS 4.5

Where DED - Independent Container Line falls in its industry

2,784 General Freight Trucking,Local establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #181 safest of 194 General Freight Trucking,Local employers in Pennsylvania.

DED - Independent Container Line (56 employees, TCR 14.1) 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 DED - Independent Container Line
DED - Independent Container Line (56 employees, TCR 14.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

DED - Independent Container Line has more employees than the General Freight Trucking,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
2024 19.9 0.0 1 0 0
2023 8.2 4.9 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · PA · West Chester

2,784 General Freight Trucking,Local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 171 employers in West Chester, PA · 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 Frank Beverage Group - Sussex 14.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR AUSTIN (TXMFR) 14.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR BTInc 14.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR NYESR - SYRACUSE 14.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kreider Farms - Mt. Pleasant 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Chester Service Building 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ginger Hill 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Infinity Custom Homes LP 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chester County Hospital 2,607 FTE
CITY-NEAR QVC, Inc. (Studio Park) 2,531 FTE
CITY-NEAR DePuy Synthes West Chester 2,087 FTE
CITY-NEAR DePuy Synthes Sales West Chester 1,265 FTE
NAT-TCR Crouse Brothers HVAC, Inc 14.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Vision Drive LLC 14.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Little Chute Health Services 14.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 0578 - Tyler TX DC 14.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Oak Oakland International Airport 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sunnyside Corporation 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mndet - Detroit Lakes 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nyhor - Hornell Center 56 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. 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.