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

Heartland Express Corporate

North Liberty, IA · ~2,211 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
3
Fatalities
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The verdict

Heartland Express Corporate runs at 65% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade B.

Heartland Express Corporate: 2.9 TCR = 65% of Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Heartland Express Corporate safety composite

Heartland Express Corporate scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 0%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 3

Safer than 0% 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

−0.4

2016→2024

Heartland Express Corporate injury rate improved

Heartland Express Corporate's TCR fell 0.4 from 3.0 in 2016 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.0 · 2017=3.2 · 2018=3.7 · 2019=3.4 · 2020=2.6 · 2021=2.1 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=3.0 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · North Liberty, IA AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade B · TCR 2.9 · 65% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #40/69
  • PHOTO BW Mitchum Trucking
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 761 inj
  • SIZE ~2,211 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BW Mitchum Trucking (0.0 TCR gap)

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Heartland Express Corporate in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Heartland Express Corporate averages 2.9 TCR (65% 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 Corporate TCR series: 2016=3 · 2017=3.2 · 2018=3.7 · 2019=3.4 · 2020=2.6 · 2021=2.1 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=3 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Heartland Express Corporate falls in its industry

3,252 Trucking, general freight, lon establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #40 safest of 69 Trucking, general freight, lon employers in Iowa.

Heartland Express Corporate (2,211 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 Corporate
Heartland Express Corporate (2,211 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 Corporate has more 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 2.6 1.7 52 1 0
2023 3.0 2.2 64 0 0
2022 2.6 2.0 54 1 1
2021 2.1 1.5 50 0 0
2020 2.6 1.7 74 0 0
2019 3.4 2.1 105 2 1
2018 3.7 2.0 137 2 1
2017 3.2 2.0 123 3 0
2016 3.0 2.2 102 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · IA · North Liberty

3,252 Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 21 employers in North Liberty, IA · 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 BW Mitchum Trucking 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seward Motor Freight, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR IAH LTL 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Baggett Transportation Company 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE TMC Transportation - Corporate 2,208 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mercy Hospital 2,197 FTE
STATE-SIZE Whirlpool - Amana 2,230 FTE
STATE-SIZE JBS Marshalltown 2,231 FTE
CITY-NEAR North Liberty 423 FTE
CITY-NEAR NIS, LLC North Liberty 134 FTE
CITY-NEAR FAREWAY STORES, INC. 993 NORTH LIBERTY 115 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of North Liberty 104 FTE
NAT-TCR NEWARK 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Rfc Il 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Wm Blanchard Co 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR C.W. Roberts Contracting Freeport Division 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Txcan - Houston (Canino) Hub 2,211 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - HOU6 2,210 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waukesha Memorial Hospital 2,210 FTE
NAT-SIZE Doctors Hospital West 2,210 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.