General freight trucking, local · Ohio

HDS Austinburg

Austinburg, OH · ~42 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HDS Austinburg runs at 142% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, local workplace, earning a grade D.

HDS Austinburg: 6.4 TCR = 142% of General freight trucking, local BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HDS Austinburg safety composite

HDS Austinburg scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

HDS Austinburg: 1.4 → 11.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.53× in 2024

HDS Austinburg's TCR rose 10.1 from 1.4 in 2023 to 11.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Austinburg, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.4 · 142% of ind

  • DART 9.8 DART
  • RANK #139/186
  • PHOTO Richard Carrier Truc…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Richard Carrier Trucking, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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HDS Austinburg in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HDS Austinburg averages 6.4 TCR (142% of the General freight trucking, local BLS benchmark).

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

HDS Austinburg TCR series: 2023=1.4 · 2024=11.4 · BLS 4.5

Where HDS Austinburg falls in its industry

2,784 General freight trucking, loca establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #139 safest of 186 General freight trucking, loca employers in Ohio.

HDS Austinburg (42 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate HDS Austinburg
HDS Austinburg (42 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

HDS Austinburg has fewer employees than the General freight trucking, local median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 11.4 9.8 7 0 0
2023 1.4 1.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · OH · Austinburg

2,784 General freight trucking, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 8 employers in Austinburg, OH · 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 Richard Carrier Trucking, Inc. 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR VAMID - FOREMOST SALES 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crystal Creamery, Inc. Hayward 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Commercial Works Columbus 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Goshen Pullets 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Consolidated Cooperative (Mount Gilead facility) 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Columbus Storeroom Annex Stn 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2948_12474 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR 32504 131 FTE
CITY-NEAR OHAUS - AUSTINBURG 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR AUSTINBURG (OHAUS) 72 FTE
CITY-NEAR HDS-Austinburg 52 FTE
NAT-TCR Rome 10298 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ctnlk - Norwalk 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Holyoke Medical Center 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Food Stores 6545 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Program Support Center 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Green River Gate 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Falcon Contracting, Inc. 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Catalina Springs Memory Care, LLC 42 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.