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

Dist Trans - Ohio

Columbus, OH · ~162 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dist Trans - Ohio runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade C.

Dist Trans - Ohio: 4.0 TCR = 88% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dist Trans - Ohio safety composite

Dist Trans - Ohio scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.2

2016→2020

Dist Trans - Ohio injury rate improved

Dist Trans - Ohio's TCR fell 2.2 from 3.9 in 2016 to 1.6 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.9 · 2017=2.3 · 2018=4.2 · 2019=7.8 · 2020=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 88% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #113/186
  • PHOTO Johnson Feed, Inc.
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~162 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Johnson Feed, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dist Trans - Ohio in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dist Trans - Ohio averages 4.0 TCR (88% 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

Dist Trans - Ohio TCR series: 2016=3.9 · 2017=2.3 · 2018=4.2 · 2019=7.8 · 2020=1.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Dist Trans - Ohio falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 36% 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 #113 safest of 186 General freight trucking, long employers in Ohio.

Dist Trans - Ohio (162 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 Dist Trans - Ohio
Dist Trans - Ohio (162 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Dist Trans - Ohio has more employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, median and a higher 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
2020 1.6 1.6 2 0 0
2019 7.8 6.2 15 0 0
2018 4.2 4.2 8 0 0
2017 2.3 1.6 6 0 0
2016 3.9 3.9 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · OH · Columbus

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 · 1,500 employers in Columbus, 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 Johnson Feed, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crane Cartage LLC- Kansas City 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maverick Portage, IN 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Four Star Transportation 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE MW Mielke 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE Daisy Brand-Wooster 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE BrewDog Brewing Co 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Shepherd Chemical Company 162 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital 13,367 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital Main Campus 10,116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Methodist Hospital 9,759 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CMH1 5,057 FTE
NAT-TCR Cencal CNC, Inc 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Briggs & Stratton Statesboro Plant 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Margaritaville Beach Hotel 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Automatic Spring Products Corp. - Hayes 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fairview Commons Nursing & Rehab Ctr 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE Equipment Depot Kentucky, Inc. 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE Surace Building 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE Joliet Area Community Hospice 162 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: 2020, 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.