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

Heartland Express Carlisle

Carlisle, PA · ~22 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Heartland Express Carlisle runs at 64% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade B.

Heartland Express Carlisle: 2.9 TCR = 64% of Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Heartland Express Carlisle safety composite

Heartland Express Carlisle scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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

−10.0

2020→2024

Heartland Express Carlisle injury rate improved

Heartland Express Carlisle's TCR fell 10.0 from 10.0 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 10.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=10.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.9 · 64% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #64/172
  • PHOTO New Creation Transpo…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: New Creation Transport Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Heartland Express Carlisle in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Heartland Express Carlisle averages 2.9 TCR (64% 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

Heartland Express Carlisle TCR series: 2020=10 · 2021=0 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Heartland Express Carlisle falls in its industry

3,252 Trucking, general freight, lon establishments

Safer than 53% 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 #64 safest of 172 Trucking, general freight, lon employers in Pennsylvania.

Heartland Express Carlisle (22 employees, TCR 2.9) 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 Heartland Express Carlisle
Heartland Express Carlisle (22 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Heartland Express Carlisle has fewer employees than the Trucking, general freight, 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 4.3 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 10.0 2.5 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · PA · Carlisle

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 · 165 employers in Carlisle, 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 New Creation Transport Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR PAM Transport - Laredo, TX 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR BIG G EXPRESS INC 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Knoxville/Lenoir City Terminal-DOT 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dawson's Orchards 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kuhn Orchards, LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Giorgi Mushroom Farm 3 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Hope 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corp Office Carlisle PA 1,191 FTE
CITY-NEAR DB Schenker--Carlisle 1,103 FTE
CITY-NEAR CCM 984 FTE
CITY-NEAR PACAS - CARLISLE 902 FTE
NAT-TCR Madison County Wood Products Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR PAM Transport - Laredo, TX 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Hoover's Hatchery 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR CCP Newco, LLC 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wohl Diversified Services 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amcor Rigid Packaging - Kenosha 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Commercial Branch 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Montgomery, IN 22 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, 2020. 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.