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

Hardinger West

Erie, PA · ~97 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

Hardinger West runs at 99% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade C.

Hardinger West: 4.5 TCR = 99% of Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hardinger West safety composite

Hardinger West scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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).

D

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

−2.7

2021→2024

Hardinger West injury rate improved

Hardinger West's TCR fell 2.7 from 5.5 in 2021 to 2.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 5.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=5.5 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=4.7 · 2024=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Erie, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.5 · 99% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #106/172
  • PHOTO Intermodal La Puente…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~97 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Intermodal La Puente Office (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hardinger West in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hardinger West averages 4.5 TCR (99% 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

Hardinger West TCR series: 2021=5.5 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=4.7 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Hardinger West falls in its industry

3,252 Trucking, general freight, lon establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #106 safest of 172 Trucking, general freight, lon employers in Pennsylvania.

Hardinger West (97 employees, TCR 4.5) 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 Hardinger West
Hardinger West (97 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Hardinger West 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
2024 2.8 2.8 3 0 0
2023 4.7 3.5 4 0 0
2022 4.8 0.0 4 0 0
2021 5.5 1.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · PA · Erie

3,252 Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 473 employers in Erie, PA · 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 Intermodal La Puente Office 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 27 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Montgomery Transport, LLC 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR TTI- Rapid City, SD 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE North American Drillers, LLC 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gibsonia 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pipeline Systems Inc. 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE American Asphalt Chase 97 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain : Erie, PA 5,403 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Hamot 2,675 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wabtec-Erie 2,141 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAINT VINCENT HOSPITAL 2,135 FTE
NAT-TCR Lone Star Bakery Inc. Plant 2 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Fairfield Insulation & Drywall LLC 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR A C & E Electric Company, LLC 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hellas Construction, Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Owyhee Health and Rehab 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carl Zeiss Sbe LLC 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seward 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Evonik Active Oxygens, LLC - Tonawanda 97 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.