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

Foodliner-Dubuque

Dubuque, IA · ~94 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Foodliner-Dubuque runs at 14% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade A.

Foodliner-Dubuque: 0.6 TCR = 14% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Foodliner-Dubuque safety composite

Foodliner-Dubuque scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).

B

81/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

−0.8

2017→2019

Foodliner-Dubuque injury rate improved

Foodliner-Dubuque's TCR fell 0.8 from 1.3 in 2017 to 0.6 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 1.3 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.3 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Dubuque, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 14% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/69
  • PHOTO LAFAYETTE SOUTH TERM…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~94 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LAFAYETTE SOUTH TERMINAL (0.0 TCR gap)

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Foodliner-Dubuque in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Foodliner-Dubuque averages 0.6 TCR (14% 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

Foodliner-Dubuque TCR series: 2017=1.3 · 2018=0 · 2019=0.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Foodliner-Dubuque falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 69 General freight trucking, long employers in Iowa.

Foodliner-Dubuque (94 employees, TCR 0.6) 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 Foodliner-Dubuque
Foodliner-Dubuque (94 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Foodliner-Dubuque has more employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, median and a lower 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 0.6 0.0 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

484121 · IA · Dubuque

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 217 employers in Dubuque, IA · 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 LAFAYETTE SOUTH TERMINAL 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant 79 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Memphis, TN - Tuggle Rd 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Upper Marlboro, MD - 16060 Leeland Rd 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience, Toledo SPSC 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henkel General Construction, LLC 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE General Mills (Avon) 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wildhawk Investments LLC 94 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Dubuque Works 2,518 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center-Dubuque-MHS-IA/NE 1,296 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne Dubuque 1,285 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hirschbach Motor Lines, Inc 1,110 FTE
NAT-TCR M4HM Kansas City MO 90-40-36-11 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Momentive Performance Materials 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Tire Buyer - 900 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Accredo Health Group, Inc. (Warrendale PA) 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE GLC Golden Rule 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waletich Corporation 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Valero Port Arthur TX - BSL 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Memorial Medical Ctr - East Tx 94 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.