Trucking, general freight, local · Illinois

FAB EXPRESS, INC. - Ft. Wayne

Lemont, IL · ~39 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

FAB EXPRESS, INC. - Ft. Wayne runs at 22% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Trucking, general freight, local workplace, earning a grade A.

FAB EXPRESS, INC. - Ft. Wayne: 1.0 TCR = 22% of Trucking, general freight, local BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

FAB EXPRESS, INC. - Ft. Wayne safety composite

FAB EXPRESS, INC. - Ft. Wayne scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

FAB EXPRESS, INC. - Ft. Wayne held a steady TCR band

FAB EXPRESS, INC. - Ft. Wayne's TCR held near 0.3 from 1.3 in 2017 to 1.6 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.3 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Lemont, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 22% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #7/161
  • PHOTO Ryder System, Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ryder System, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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FAB EXPRESS, INC. - Ft. Wayne in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows FAB EXPRESS, INC. - Ft. Wayne averages 1.0 TCR (22% of the Trucking, general freight, local BLS benchmark).

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

FAB EXPRESS, INC. - Ft. Wayne TCR series: 2017=1.3 · 2018=0 · 2019=1.6 · BLS 4.5

Where FAB EXPRESS, INC. - Ft. Wayne falls in its industry

2,784 Trucking, general freight, loc establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 161 Trucking, general freight, loc employers in Illinois.

FAB EXPRESS, INC. - Ft. Wayne (39 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate FAB EXPRESS, INC. - Ft. Wayne
FAB EXPRESS, INC. - Ft. Wayne (39 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

FAB EXPRESS, INC. - Ft. Wayne has fewer employees than the Trucking, general freight, local median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 1.3 1.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · IL · Lemont

2,784 Trucking, general freight, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 50 employers in Lemont, 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 Ryder System, Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brown Trucking Company Bowling Green 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 701 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 7433_17108 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beck's El Paso 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Green Glen Nursery, Inc 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE NRG Joliet Generating Station 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Bloomington 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lemont Refinery 598 FTE
CITY-NEAR PDV Midwest Refining, L.L.C. 573 FTE
CITY-NEAR Timberline Knolls 271 FTE
CITY-NEAR Franciscan Village 251 FTE
NAT-TCR JR Simplot Company-SGS Traver 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CPI Malibu Divisioin 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 4113-41131001-A78 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Briggs Dallas 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cumming Motors Inc 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lukjan Midwest 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gainco 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marietta Ohio 39 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.