General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) · Virginia

Direct Services Inc

Springfield, VA · ~99 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Direct Services Inc runs at 78% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) workplace, earning a grade B.

Direct Services Inc: 3.5 TCR = 78% of General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Direct Services Inc safety composite

Direct Services Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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 Services Inc: 4.4 → 6.2 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 6.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.76× in 2022

Direct Services Inc's TCR rose 1.8 from 4.4 in 2019 to 6.2 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Springfield, VA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.5 · 78% of ind

  • DART 6.2 DART
  • RANK #20/68
  • PHOTO XBW
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~99 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: XBW (0.0 TCR gap)

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Direct Services Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Direct Services Inc averages 3.5 TCR (78% of the General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS benchmark).

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

Direct Services Inc TCR series: 2019=4.4 · 2021=0 · 2022=6.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Direct Services Inc falls in its industry

3,020 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 68 General freight trucking, long employers in Virginia.

Direct Services Inc (99 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Direct Services Inc
Direct Services Inc (99 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Direct Services Inc has more employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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
2022 6.2 6.2 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 4.4 1.1 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · VA · Springfield

3,020 General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 117 employers in Springfield, VA · 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 XBW 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR FSM-ODFL 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR RMDS Indianapolis 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Staley General Transportation 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE LEO Construction Co. 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maddox Air & Electrical 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Minton and Roberson Inc. 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mainland 99 FTE
CITY-NEAR Global Specialty Fulfillment : UVA1 1,567 FTE
CITY-NEAR Energy Zone Center 1,482 FTE
CITY-NEAR FCPS - Food and Nutrition Services 1,445 FTE
CITY-NEAR Greenspring Village 957 FTE
NAT-TCR Summer Infant 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Community Interface services 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR TAC Air - BUF 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR CalvertHealth Medical Center 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Johnson Plastics Plus 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE County Market #244 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE DAK Americas 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tops 213 99 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: 2022, 2021, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.