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

Equity Transportation

Grand Rapids, MI · ~161 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Equity Transportation runs at 117% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade C.

Equity Transportation: 5.3 TCR = 117% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Equity Transportation safety composite

Equity Transportation scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 3%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 3% 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

Equity Transportation: 3.2 → 7.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2023

Equity Transportation's TCR rose 3.8 from 3.2 in 2021 to 7.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Grand Rapids, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 5.3 · 117% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #67/89
  • PHOTO Franks Vacuum Truck …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~161 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Franks Vacuum Truck Service In (0.0 TCR gap)

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Equity Transportation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Equity Transportation averages 5.3 TCR (117% 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

Equity Transportation TCR series: 2021=3.2 · 2022=5.5 · 2023=7 · BLS 4.5

Where Equity Transportation falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #67 safest of 89 General freight trucking, long employers in Michigan.

Equity Transportation (161 employees, TCR 5.3) 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 Equity Transportation
Equity Transportation (161 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Equity Transportation 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
2023 7.0 5.2 11 1 0
2022 5.5 5.5 11 0 0
2021 3.2 1.9 4 1 1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · MI · Grand Rapids

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 1,006 employers in Grand Rapids, MI · 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 Franks Vacuum Truck Service In 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tidewater Transit-Kingsport 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR WI018 - WI-Sturtevant-Operating Center 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 431 Perry Street 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bay City SC 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE John Schnittker (MI) 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE DHE Plumbing & Mechanical 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE 855 - Fresh Assembly 161 FTE
CITY-NEAR SHHG-GR BUTTERWORTH CA 9,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR SH Butterworth Hospital 7,397 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health Saint Mary's Hospital-MH-MI 2,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steelcase - Grand Rapids / Kentwood 2,817 FTE
NAT-TCR Theisen's of Charles City 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR PACE Lynchburg 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Red Sun Farms 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Pennwood Products 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Adient Columbia 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Mary Sugar Cooperative, Inc. 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE Del Monte Foods-Markesan 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE L3Harris Randtron Antenna Systems 161 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: 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.