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

Dubuque, IA

Dubuque, IA · ~100 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dubuque, IA runs at 18% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade A.

Dubuque, IA: 0.8 TCR = 18% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dubuque, IA safety composite

Dubuque, IA scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% 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

Dubuque, IA: 0.0 → 0.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 3.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.45× in 2024

Dubuque, IA's TCR rose 0.7 from 0.0 in 2018 to 0.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Dubuque, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 18% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #8/69
  • PHOTO Slay Transportation …
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~100 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Slay Transportation Jacintoport (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dubuque, IA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dubuque, IA averages 0.8 TCR (18% 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

Dubuque, IA TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=1.6 · 2024=0.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Dubuque, IA falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 69 General freight trucking, long employers in Iowa.

Dubuque, IA (100 employees, TCR 0.8) 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 Dubuque, IA
Dubuque, IA (100 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Dubuque, IA 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 0.7 0.4 2 0 0
2023 1.6 0.8 2 2 0
2022 3.5 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · IA · Dubuque

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 217 employers in Dubuque, IA · 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 Slay Transportation Jacintoport 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1284 JACOBSON TRANSPORTATION-1284 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR WM 3939 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR WM 6839 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Weitz Company, LLC. - Mission Critical 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE JFSNA at ADM Clinton 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE All Star Concrete 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Plant 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Dubuque Works 2,518 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center-Dubuque-MHS-IA/NE 1,296 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne Dubuque 1,285 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hirschbach Motor Lines, Inc 1,110 FTE
NAT-TCR Monarch Landscape Management LLC 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Earthcom, Inc. 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Cornerstone WI 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 105 S Bedford Rd 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cudahy 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pacific M Painting 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ampco Distribution Services, LLC 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Air Liquide Advanced Materials - Branchburg 100 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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