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

Heiter Truck Line Inc.

Spencer, IA · ~26 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Heiter Truck Line Inc. runs at 24% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade A.

Heiter Truck Line Inc.: 1.1 TCR = 24% of Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Heiter Truck Line Inc. safety composite

Heiter Truck Line Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% 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

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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

−2.3

2016→2024

Heiter Truck Line Inc. injury rate improved

Heiter Truck Line Inc.'s TCR fell 2.3 from 2.3 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.3 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=4.7 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Spencer, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 24% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #13/69
  • PHOTO PAM Transport - Nort…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PAM Transport - North Jackson, OH (0.0 TCR gap)

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Heiter Truck Line Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Heiter Truck Line Inc. averages 1.1 TCR (24% 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 2026-08-25

Heiter Truck Line Inc. TCR series: 2016=2.3 · 2017=0 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=4.7 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Heiter Truck Line Inc. falls in its industry

3,252 Motor freight carrier, general establishments

Safer than 88% 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 #13 safest of 69 Motor freight carrier, general employers in Iowa.

Heiter Truck Line Inc. (26 employees, TCR 1.1) 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 Heiter Truck Line Inc.
Heiter Truck Line Inc. (26 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Heiter Truck Line Inc. 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 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 4.7 0.0 1 0 0
2018 2.8 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 2.3 2.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · IA · Spencer

3,252 Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 44 employers in Spencer, 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 PAM Transport - North Jackson, OH 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Benton Harbor, MI - 2000 1st Street 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lawrence Transportation Company 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dedicated Fayetteville 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eastwood Sow Unit 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4806-Urbandale, IA 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE DBQ Downtown Office 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Iowa Electric Cooperative 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arnold Motor Supply 764 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spencer Hospital 516 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spencer Municipal Hospital 515 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2714 221 FTE
NAT-TCR HES Tulsa 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR NSLIJ Research 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR T. H. Eifert, LLC 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Mazzella Lifting Technologies (Cleveland, OH) 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Culebra Road 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goliad 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Commercial Grounds 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orenco Systems, Inc. - North Bank Facility 26 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.