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

Erick Berscheid Trucking

Kimball, MN · ~27 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Erick Berscheid Trucking runs at 184% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade D.

Erick Berscheid Trucking: 8.3 TCR = 184% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Erick Berscheid Trucking safety composite

Erick Berscheid Trucking scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.3

2020→2024

Erick Berscheid Trucking injury rate improved

Erick Berscheid Trucking's TCR fell 1.3 from 5.1 in 2020 to 3.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 17.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=5.1 · 2021=17.7 · 2022=3.7 · 2023=11.1 · 2024=3.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Kimball, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.3 · 184% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #67/74
  • PHOTO Tighe Trucking
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tighe Trucking (0.0 TCR gap)

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Erick Berscheid Trucking in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Erick Berscheid Trucking averages 8.3 TCR (184% 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

Erick Berscheid Trucking TCR series: 2020=5.1 · 2021=17.7 · 2022=3.7 · 2023=11.1 · 2024=3.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Erick Berscheid Trucking falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #67 safest of 74 General freight trucking, long employers in Minnesota.

Erick Berscheid Trucking (27 employees, TCR 8.3) 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 Erick Berscheid Trucking
Erick Berscheid Trucking (27 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Erick Berscheid Trucking 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
2024 3.8 3.8 1 0 0
2023 11.1 3.7 3 0 0
2022 3.7 3.7 1 0 0
2021 17.7 3.5 5 0 0
2020 5.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · MN · Kimball

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 9 employers in Kimball, MN · 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 Tighe Trucking 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hazelton, PA - 68 Green Mtn Road 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR National Strategic Transport - All locations 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trans-System Inc - Denver 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Featherstone Fruits and Vegetables LLC. 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forest City Feedmill 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schwartz Farms PAP MN 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2011-Stanton, MN 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR High School 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elementary 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kuechle Underground Inc 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Kimball 41 FTE
NAT-TCR Durham ORC 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR WF Smith Inc 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 1536 - Mansfield 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 1487 - Mission 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE National Distribution Centers LLC-1510 CARGO CT 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vortex Colorado SHO 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sno-Services LLC 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Western Propane 27 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.