General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) · Ohio

Dick Lavy Trucking

Bradford, OH · ~202 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dick Lavy Trucking runs at 34% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade A.

Dick Lavy Trucking: 1.5 TCR = 34% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dick Lavy Trucking safety composite

Dick Lavy Trucking scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% 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).

C

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

Dick Lavy Trucking: 1.5 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.81× in 2024

Dick Lavy Trucking's TCR rose 0.6 from 1.5 in 2016 to 2.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Bradford, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 34% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #37/186
  • PHOTO RG Transport
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 37 inj
  • SIZE ~202 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RG Transport (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dick Lavy Trucking in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dick Lavy Trucking averages 1.5 TCR (34% of the General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

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

Dick Lavy Trucking TCR series: 2016=1.5 · 2018=1.6 · 2019=1.9 · 2020=1.9 · 2021=1.3 · 2022=1.1 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Dick Lavy Trucking falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #37 safest of 186 General freight trucking, long employers in Ohio.

Dick Lavy Trucking (202 employees, TCR 1.5) 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 Dick Lavy Trucking
Dick Lavy Trucking (202 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Dick Lavy Trucking has more 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 2.1 1.3 5 0 0
2023 1.1 1.1 3 0 0
2022 1.1 1.1 3 0 0
2021 1.3 1.3 4 0 0
2020 1.9 1.3 6 0 0
2019 1.9 1.6 6 0 0
2018 1.6 0.6 5 0 0
2016 1.5 1.2 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · OH · Bradford

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 3 employers in Bradford, OH · 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 RG Transport 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Houston, TX - Hempsted Hwy 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CARLISLE DRY 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cold Rush Express, LLC 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Brewer-Garrett Company 202 FTE
STATE-SIZE KUTOL PRODUCTS COMPANY 202 FTE
STATE-SIZE Whirlaway Corporation Plant 1 202 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ariel Akron 202 FTE
CITY-NEAR Production Paint Finishers 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR Metcon Ltd 78 FTE
NAT-TCR L. L. Johnson Distributing Co. 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR L. C Doane Co 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Sautter Crane Rental, Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Billings Clinic West 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dart Container Quitman 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oak Creek 37 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE Moorings Park Nursing Services 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE Macon 202 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.