Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) · Illinois

Dollar Tree (WC USX JOT)

Joliet, IL · ~74 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dollar Tree (WC USX JOT) runs at 230% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade F.

Dollar Tree (WC USX JOT): 10.3 TCR = 230% of Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dollar Tree (WC USX JOT) safety composite

Dollar Tree (WC USX JOT) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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).

F

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Dollar Tree (WC USX JOT): 4.3 → 14.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 14.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.16× in 2021

Dollar Tree (WC USX JOT)'s TCR rose 10.2 from 4.3 in 2016 to 14.4 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Joliet, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.3 · 230% of ind

  • DART 12.0 DART
  • RANK #136/143
  • PHOTO ARCATA NORTH
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 52 inj
  • SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ARCATA NORTH (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dollar Tree (WC USX JOT) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dollar Tree (WC USX JOT) averages 10.3 TCR (230% of the Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

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

Dollar Tree (WC USX JOT) TCR series: 2016=4.3 · 2017=10.4 · 2018=9.4 · 2019=11.8 · 2020=11.8 · 2021=14.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Dollar Tree (WC USX JOT) falls in its industry

3,252 Motor freight carrier, general establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #136 safest of 143 Motor freight carrier, general employers in Illinois.

Dollar Tree (WC USX JOT) (74 employees, TCR 10.3) 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 Dollar Tree (WC USX JOT)
Dollar Tree (WC USX JOT) (74 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Dollar Tree (WC USX JOT) has more employees than the Motor freight carrier, general, long-dis 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
2021 14.4 12.0 5 1 0
2020 11.8 10.4 8 0 0
2019 11.8 11.8 11 0 0
2018 9.4 8.4 9 0 0
2017 10.4 10.4 13 0 0
2016 4.3 2.8 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · IL · Joliet

3,252 Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 281 employers in Joliet, IL · 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 ARCATA NORTH 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 06 RSK LTL 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6223-802 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR ASP Inc of South Dakota 10.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience LLC 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Public Works- Water & Sewer Dept. 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Normandy Construction Co. Inc 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE 105652 - Cass County Solar 150 MW AC 74 FTE
CITY-NEAR County Of Will 2,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : MDW2 2,361 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - MDW2 2,101 FTE
CITY-NEAR Presence Saint Joseph Medical Center, Joliet 2,089 FTE
NAT-TCR Binder Park Zoo 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Wagner Heights Residential 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Encompass Health Deaconess 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR MFG Alabama, LLC 10.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Family Dollar (WC USX FOK) 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wesco - EPG 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Target (WC USX TDT) 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dollar General (WC USX DBE) 74 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.