Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) · Michigan

Four Star Transportation

Melvindale, MI · ~67 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Four Star Transportation runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade C.

Four Star Transportation: 4.0 TCR = 88% of Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Four Star Transportation safety composite

Four Star Transportation scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Four Star Transportation: 1.5 → 6.4 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 6.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.62× in 2019

Four Star Transportation's TCR rose 4.9 from 1.5 in 2018 to 6.4 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Melvindale, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 88% of ind

  • DART 6.4 DART
  • RANK #56/89
  • PHOTO Johnson Feed, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~67 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Johnson Feed, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Four Star Transportation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Four Star Transportation averages 4.0 TCR (88% of the Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

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

Four Star Transportation TCR series: 2018=1.5 · 2019=6.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Four Star Transportation falls in its industry

3,252 Trucking, general freight, lon establishments

Safer than 36% 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 #56 safest of 89 Trucking, general freight, lon employers in Michigan.

Four Star Transportation (67 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 Four Star Transportation
Four Star Transportation (67 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Four Star Transportation has more employees than the Trucking, general freight, 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 6.4 6.4 6 0 0
2018 1.5 1.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · MI · Melvindale

3,252 Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 17 employers in Melvindale, 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 Johnson Feed, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crane Cartage LLC- Kansas City 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maverick Portage, IN 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dist Trans - Ohio 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cadillac SC 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE CS Erickson 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hamilton Contracting LLC 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Leading Edge - Wyoming 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR Allen Road Center 510 FTE
CITY-NEAR Evans Distribution Systems - Headquarters 129 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mill Steel Melvindale 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shrader Tire and Oil Melvindale 47 FTE
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0020 2580 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 9 Forbes Rd Ste 9B 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0027 2639 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sekisui Voltek, LLC, Lawrence 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 5472-Swy 0035 1570 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6400-Swy 0020 1973 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6400-Swy 0005 0027 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6400-Swy 0005 0137 67 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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