Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) · Tennessee

Heartland Express Mt Juliet

Mt Juliet, TN · ~31 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Heartland Express Mt Juliet runs at 35% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade A.

Heartland Express Mt Juliet: 1.6 TCR = 35% of Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Heartland Express Mt Juliet safety composite

Heartland Express Mt Juliet scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Heartland Express Mt Juliet: 0.0 → 3.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 3.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2018

Heartland Express Mt Juliet's TCR rose 3.1 from 0.0 in 2017 to 3.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Mt Juliet, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 35% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #29/128
  • PHOTO AV Transportation Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AV Transportation Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Heartland Express Mt Juliet in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Heartland Express Mt Juliet averages 1.6 TCR (35% of the Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Heartland Express Mt Juliet TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=3.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Heartland Express Mt Juliet falls in its industry

3,252 Motor freight carrier, general establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 128 Motor freight carrier, general employers in Tennessee.

Heartland Express Mt Juliet (31 employees, TCR 1.6) 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 Mt Juliet
Heartland Express Mt Juliet (31 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Heartland Express Mt Juliet has fewer employees than the Motor freight carrier, general, long-dis 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
2018 3.1 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · TN · Mt Juliet

3,252 Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 16 employers in Mt Juliet, TN · 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 AV Transportation Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Robstown South 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pittston, PA - Enterprise Way 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ard's Trucking Company, Inc - Georgetown Terminal 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Humboldt Hatchery 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE TN - Franklin, 1810 Columbia Ave Ste 24 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE TNN014 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE TNMEM-OPI-MEMPHIS-WINCHESTER 138 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR JONES BROS CONTRACTORS, LLC 362 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4358 GEODIS LOGISTICS 158 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4358 157 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2807-2654 155 FTE
NAT-TCR Filtration : Cambellsville 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Emerson Hermetic Motors 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Horst Group 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Conner Haslet Tx Plant 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Clover Leaf Gin Inc. Georgia 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE 002 TRC Christie Club 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Franklin Building Supply - Jaguar 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Feld Entertainment - DL 2 31 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: 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.