Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) · Illinois

Hercules CG

Hickory Hills, IL · ~53 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hercules CG runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) workplace, earning a grade B.

Hercules CG: 2.5 TCR = 56% of Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hercules CG safety composite

Hercules CG scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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%).

Hercules CG held a steady TCR band

Hercules CG's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 9.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2019=4.2 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=9.1 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Hickory Hills, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 56% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #18/177
  • PHOTO TCBX Trucking
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TCBX Trucking (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hercules CG in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hercules CG averages 2.5 TCR (56% of the Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Hercules CG TCR series: 2016=0 · 2019=4.2 · 2020=0 · 2021=9.1 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Hercules CG falls in its industry

3,020 Motor freight carrier, general establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 177 Motor freight carrier, general employers in Illinois.

Hercules CG (53 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Hercules CG
Hercules CG (53 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Hercules CG has fewer employees than the Motor freight carrier, general, long-dis median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2021 9.1 9.1 5 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 4.2 4.2 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · IL · Hickory Hills

3,020 Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 16 employers in Hickory Hills, IL · 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 TCBX Trucking 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CKV-ODFL 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bakersfield 214 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR DAL-ESS 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Flamm Orchards Inc 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Princeton IL Research-PRI2 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2505-Mason City, IL 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prairie State Generating Company - Corporate Office 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5472-000003029 185 FTE
CITY-NEAR NAI-0032-0032-04029 FAC-04029-HICKORY HILLS-IL 179 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5472-000004029 171 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5472-NAI-0032-0032-04029 163 FTE
NAT-TCR San Eli Supermarket- Fabens 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR California Engineering Contractors, Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR The Thymes, LLC 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #2849 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tremron - Atlp2 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Contech Gadst 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Contech Denst 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE WT Construction Inc. 53 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.