Bulk mail truck transportation, contract, long-distance (TL) · Illinois

Eagle Express Lines, Inc

Homewood, IL · ~1,775 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
3
Fatalities
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The verdict

Eagle Express Lines, Inc runs at 129% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bulk mail truck transportation, contract, long-distance (TL) workplace, earning a grade D.

Eagle Express Lines, Inc: 5.8 TCR = 129% of Bulk mail truck transportation, contract, long-distance (TL) BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Eagle Express Lines, Inc safety composite

Eagle Express Lines, Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 0%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 3

Safer than 0% 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

−0.9

2016→2019

Eagle Express Lines, Inc injury rate improved

Eagle Express Lines, Inc's TCR fell 0.9 from 6.7 in 2016 to 5.8 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.7 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.7 · 2017=4.7 · 2018=6.0 · 2019=5.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Homewood, IL ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 129% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #119/143
  • PHOTO LCK LTL
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 445 inj
  • SIZE ~1,775 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LCK LTL (0.0 TCR gap)

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Eagle Express Lines, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Eagle Express Lines, Inc averages 5.8 TCR (129% of the Bulk mail truck transportation, contract, long-distance (TL) BLS benchmark).

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

Eagle Express Lines, Inc TCR series: 2016=6.7 · 2017=4.7 · 2018=6 · 2019=5.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Eagle Express Lines, Inc falls in its industry

3,252 Bulk mail truck transportation establishments

Safer than 19% 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 #119 safest of 143 Bulk mail truck transportation employers in Illinois.

Eagle Express Lines, Inc (1,775 employees, TCR 5.8) 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 Eagle Express Lines, Inc
Eagle Express Lines, Inc (1,775 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Eagle Express Lines, Inc has more employees than the Bulk mail truck transportation, contract 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
2019 5.8 4.8 134 0 2
2018 6.0 3.3 136 0 1
2017 4.7 3.3 90 4 0
2016 6.7 4.2 85 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · IL · Homewood

3,252 Bulk mail truck transportation, contract, long-distance (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 41 employers in Homewood, 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 LCK LTL 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6223-804 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Material Delivery Service, Inc. 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbus Terminal-NON DOT 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE PCI Pharma Services 1,773 FTE
STATE-SIZE Swift Pork 1,781 FTE
STATE-SIZE MDWPW9669 MDW - OPS 1,757 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brightstar, US 1,755 FTE
CITY-NEAR Homewood 585 FTE
CITY-NEAR CCSI-Homewood 416 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5404 357 FTE
CITY-NEAR 10823 346 FTE
NAT-TCR Virginia Poly Operations (VPO) 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR St Vincent Hospital Hot Springs 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Marlborough Hills MA SNF LLC 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0017 0239 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - HOU5 1,775 FTE
NAT-SIZE Smithfield Foods 1,775 FTE
NAT-SIZE North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : TUS1 1,774 FTE
NAT-SIZE CooperVision Manufacturing Puerto Rico LLC 1,774 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: 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.