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

Heartland Express Rancho Cucamonga

Rancho Cucamonga, CA · ~86 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Heartland Express Rancho Cucamonga runs at 186% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade D.

Heartland Express Rancho Cucamonga: 8.4 TCR = 186% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Heartland Express Rancho Cucamonga safety composite

Heartland Express Rancho Cucamonga scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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 Rancho Cucamonga: 7.4 → 10.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 10.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.96× in 2023

Heartland Express Rancho Cucamonga's TCR rose 3.0 from 7.4 in 2017 to 10.4 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Rancho Cucamonga, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.4 · 186% of ind

  • DART 8.1 DART
  • RANK #190/218
  • PHOTO Ronald Gross, Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~86 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ronald Gross, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Heartland Express Rancho Cucamonga in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Heartland Express Rancho Cucamonga averages 8.4 TCR (186% 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 Rancho Cucamonga TCR series: 2017=7.4 · 2022=7.4 · 2023=10.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Heartland Express Rancho Cucamonga falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #190 safest of 218 General freight trucking, long employers in California.

Heartland Express Rancho Cucamonga (86 employees, TCR 8.4) 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 Rancho Cucamonga
Heartland Express Rancho Cucamonga (86 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Heartland Express Rancho Cucamonga has more 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
2023 10.4 8.1 9 0 0
2022 7.4 4.2 7 0 0
2017 7.4 4.0 10 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · CA · Rancho Cucamonga

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 229 employers in Rancho Cucamonga, CA · 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 Ronald Gross, Inc. 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6223-246 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR NC-Advance 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Moorman Farms Inc 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE MALAGA HARVEST SHOP 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Muller Ranch, LLC 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE OXNARD TERRACE 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mushroom Farms 86 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 304 1,529 FTE
CITY-NEAR Davis Development Company, Inc. 1,214 FTE
CITY-NEAR CUCAMONGA 809 FTE
CITY-NEAR VIP,INC. Rancho Cucamonga 751 FTE
NAT-TCR Democrat Printing & Lithographing 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ronald Gross, Inc. 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Future Foam, Inc. 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Seaboard Holdings, LLC 8.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hotel Management of New Orleans, LLC. 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Azria Health Rose Vista 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Joseph MO Refinery 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE KTM Industries, Inc Reno 86 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: 2023, 2022, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.