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

ECM Transport-Akron

Akron, OH · ~23 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ECM Transport-Akron runs at 94% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade C.

ECM Transport-Akron: 4.2 TCR = 94% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ECM Transport-Akron safety composite

ECM Transport-Akron scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

ECM Transport-Akron: 0.0 → 10.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 10.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.57× in 2020

ECM Transport-Akron's TCR rose 10.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 10.0 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Akron, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.2 · 94% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK #120/186
  • PHOTO UDS 4812 (Dearborn -…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: UDS 4812 (Dearborn - M) (0.0 TCR gap)

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ECM Transport-Akron in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ECM Transport-Akron averages 4.2 TCR (94% 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

ECM Transport-Akron TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=7 · 2019=0 · 2020=10 · BLS 4.5

Where ECM Transport-Akron falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 33% 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 #120 safest of 186 General freight trucking, long employers in Ohio.

ECM Transport-Akron (23 employees, TCR 4.2) 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 ECM Transport-Akron
ECM Transport-Akron (23 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

ECM Transport-Akron has fewer 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 10.0 6.7 3 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 7.0 7.0 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · OH · Akron

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 · 512 employers in Akron, 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 UDS 4812 (Dearborn - M) 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rodney Enterprises dba Stephen 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hoge Motor Co., Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ken Graham Trucking 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE MID EAST PRODUCTION LLC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schlessman Seed Co 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lake County Nursery 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE LCN Holdings Inc dba Lake County Nursery 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron 6,746 FTE
CITY-NEAR Akron Children's Hospital 6,060 FTE
CITY-NEAR Summa Health - Akron City 4,801 FTE
CITY-NEAR Akron General Medical Center 4,176 FTE
NAT-TCR Regency Court - #504 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Med West - St. Louis 90-48-34-32 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 359 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 707 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE DGS Aviation Services : BFL - Bakersfield 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE DGS Aviation Services : BJI - Bemidji 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Social Vocational Services 267 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Norman NM 23 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. 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.