Freight forwarding · Indiana

Direct Connect Logistix

Indianapolis, IN · ~156 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Direct Connect Logistix runs at 16% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Freight forwarding workplace, earning a grade A.

Direct Connect Logistix: 0.7 TCR = 16% of Freight forwarding BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Direct Connect Logistix safety composite

Direct Connect Logistix scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Direct Connect Logistix: 0.0 → 0.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 2.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.66× in 2023

Direct Connect Logistix's TCR rose 0.5 from 0.0 in 2018 to 0.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 2.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488510 · Indianapolis, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 16% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #2/12
  • PHOTO Crane Worldwide- Hou…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~156 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Crane Worldwide- Houston (0.0 TCR gap)

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Direct Connect Logistix in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Direct Connect Logistix averages 0.7 TCR (16% of the Freight forwarding BLS benchmark).

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

Direct Connect Logistix TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=2.2 · 2020=0.8 · 2021=0.8 · 2022=0 · 2023=0.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Direct Connect Logistix falls in its industry

358 Freight forwarding establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 12 Freight forwarding employers in Indiana.

Direct Connect Logistix (156 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.2 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Direct Connect Logistix
Direct Connect Logistix (156 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Direct Connect Logistix has more employees than the Freight forwarding median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.2. 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
2023 0.5 0.5 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.8 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2019 2.2 0.0 3 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488510 · IN · Indianapolis

358 Freight forwarding employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 2,074 employers in Indianapolis, IN · 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 Crane Worldwide- Houston 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR WABLN - BORDER BROKERAGE BLAINE ADMINISTRATION 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR OHMHT - MIDDLEBURG HEIGHTS OH 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR AFS Logistics- Greenville Office 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Commodore Homes 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ampacet Corp Terre Haute 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amcor Franklin 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maax Bath Plymouth 156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Indiana University Health, Inc 7,874 FTE
CITY-NEAR Methodist Hospital 6,862 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eli Lilly - Lilly Corp Center 6,482 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lilly Technology Center 6,472 FTE
NAT-TCR KPC Promise Healthcare LLC 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Associated Painting Co 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Lucasville Service Center 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mercury Aircraft Inc 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE Westlake Compounds, LLC 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE Union Supply Group, Inc. - OH DC 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE National Water Main Cleaning Company (NJ Division) 156 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.