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

Garland Gehrke Trucking, Inc.

Name: Garland Gehrke Trucking, Inc. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Lincoln, IL · ~40 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 3.0
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Garland Gehrke Trucking, Inc. runs at 67% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade B.

Garland Gehrke Trucking, Inc.: 3.0 TCR = 67% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Garland Gehrke Trucking, Inc. safety composite

Garland Gehrke Trucking, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 3.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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

−4.1

2017→2019

Garland Gehrke Trucking, Inc. injury rate improved

Garland Gehrke Trucking, Inc.'s TCR fell 4.1 from 4.1 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.9 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.1 · 2018=4.9 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Lincoln, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.0 · 67% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #75/143
PHOTO 6809
BOOK 3y book
INJ 4 inj
SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 6809 (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Garland Gehrke Trucking, Inc. averages 3.0 TCR (67% of the General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

Garland Gehrke Trucking, Inc. TCR series: 2017=4.1 · 2018=4.9 · 2019=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Garland Gehrke Trucking, Inc. falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #75 safest of 143 General freight trucking, long employers in Illinois.

Garland Gehrke Trucking, Inc. (40 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Garland Gehrke Trucking, Inc. has fewer 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
2019	0.0	0.0	0
2018	4.9	2.5	2
2017	4.1	4.1	2

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · IL · Lincoln

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 45 employers in Lincoln, IL · 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	6809	MOUNT PLEASANT, IA	3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	D&G Transportation - headquarters	GERMANTOWN, WI	3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Davidson Trucking, Inc.	BRADNER, OH	3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Haines City, FL	HAINES CITY, FL	3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	AMEREN ILLINOIS - Gas Integrity Management	DECATUR	40 FTE
STATE-SIZE	NG Bloomington Reporting Center	BLOOMINGTON	40 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Downers Grove Sanitary District	DOWNERS GROVE	40 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Window Works Addison	ADDISON	40 FTE
CITY-NEAR	LINCOLN IL	Lincoln	726 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital	Lincoln	352 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Lincoln Memorial Hospital	Lincoln	336 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 199	Lincoln	293 FTE
NAT-TCR	Methdosit Hospitals of Dallas	Dallas, TX	3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Cibola County	Milan, NM	3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	InTech Integrated Marketing Services, LLC	La Crosse, WI	3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Shopko Hometown #585 (Mayville, ND)	Mayville, ND	3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE	ROLANE Transportation, Inc.	Brockton, MA	40 FTE
NAT-SIZE	River Valley Motors Inc DBA Honda World	Conway, AR	40 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Granville Township - Fire Department	Granville, OH	40 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Mundy Maintenance, Services and Operations LLC Job #32330	Moncks Corner, SC	40 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.