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

Foodliner - Barksdale

Name: Foodliner - Barksdale Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Newark, DE · ~51 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 4.1
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Foodliner - Barksdale runs at 92% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade C.

Foodliner - Barksdale: 4.1 TCR = 92% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Foodliner - Barksdale safety composite

Foodliner - Barksdale scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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).

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 4.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers
DART rate: D 1.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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

−4.4

2018→2019

Foodliner - Barksdale injury rate improved

Foodliner - Barksdale's TCR fell 4.4 from 6.3 in 2018 to 1.9 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.3 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=6.3 · 2019=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Newark, DE AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.1 · 92% of ind

DART 1.9 DART
RANK #7/8
PHOTO Burns Motor Freight,…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 6 inj
SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Burns Motor Freight, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Combined Carri

4.1
Shaker Transpo

4.1

What this shows Foodliner - Barksdale averages 4.1 TCR (92% of the General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

Foodliner - Barksdale TCR series: 2018=6.3 · 2019=1.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Foodliner - Barksdale falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Delaware alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 8 General freight trucking, long employers in Delaware.

Foodliner - Barksdale (51 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Foodliner - Barksdale 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
2019	1.9	1.9	1	0	0
2018	6.3	6.3	5	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · DE · Newark

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,487 rated employers in Delaware with headcount on file · 221 employers in Newark, DE · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Burns Motor Freight, Inc.	MARLINTON, WV	4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Purdy Brothers Trucking Loudon, TN	LOUDON, TN	4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Combined Carriers Co.	PUYALLUP, WA	4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Shaker Transport	WATERFORD, NY	4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Seaford DE Hatchery	SEAFORD	51 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Wilmington DE WWTP OMI	WILMINGTON	51 FTE
STATE-SIZE	George Sherman Corporation	LEWES	51 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Millsboro Feed Mill	MILLSBORO	51 FTE
CITY-NEAR	50 Christiana	Newark	11,420 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Newark Site	Newark	1,462 FTE
CITY-NEAR	DE00000042 GOODWILL INDUSTRIES - NEWARK	Newark	1,028 FTE
CITY-NEAR	DuPont Electronic Materials	Newark	653 FTE
NAT-TCR	Dallas Millworks	Hiram, GA	4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	George's Cassville Processing Plant	Cassville, MO	4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Austin Facility	Austin, TX	4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Maricopa County	Phoenix, AZ	4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Foodliner-Diamond	Diamond, MO	51 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Great Lakes Cheese, Seymour, Inc.	Seymour, WI	51 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Rule Steel Plant 7	Caldwell, ID	51 FTE
NAT-SIZE	US Energy Partners, LLC	Russell, KS	51 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. 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.