General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) · Arizona

Heartland Express Phoenix

Phoenix, AZ · ~23 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Heartland Express Phoenix runs at 73% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade B.

Heartland Express Phoenix: 3.3 TCR = 73% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Heartland Express Phoenix safety composite

Heartland Express Phoenix scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% 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).

D

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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 Phoenix: 6.7 → 10.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.1 TCR · DART/TCR 2.06× in 2024

Heartland Express Phoenix's TCR rose 3.4 from 6.7 in 2016 to 10.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Phoenix, AZ AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.3 · 73% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK #26/43
  • PHOTO MTS Louisville
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MTS Louisville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Heartland Express Phoenix in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Heartland Express Phoenix averages 3.3 TCR (73% of the General freight trucking, 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 Phoenix TCR series: 2016=6.7 · 2017=2.6 · 2018=6.4 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=10.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Heartland Express Phoenix falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 43 General freight trucking, long employers in Arizona.

Heartland Express Phoenix (23 employees, TCR 3.3) 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 Phoenix
Heartland Express Phoenix (23 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Heartland Express Phoenix has fewer employees than the General freight trucking, 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 10.1 6.7 3 0 0
2023 3.6 3.6 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 6.4 0.0 2 0 0
2017 2.6 0.0 1 0 0
2016 6.7 3.3 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · AZ · Phoenix

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 2,630 employers in Phoenix, AZ · 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 MTS Louisville 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Exxact Transport, Inc 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Guardian Corsicana 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Building Systems Transportation 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nakase Brothers Wholesale Nursery AZ 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eloy Farm 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE McClintock Dairy, LLP - MDL266 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coolidge 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maricopa County 15,504 FTE
CITY-NEAR Phoenix Children's Hospital 7,575 FTE
CITY-NEAR All Company 6,261 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030500 6,153 FTE
NAT-TCR Construction 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 154 Chiquita 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Eagle #0043 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Major Pharmacueticals Indianapolis 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Goldman Equipment, LLC - Alexandria 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gold Star Feed and Grain, LLC Adams Center NY 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Daily Journal 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE 037-COL 23 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.