Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) · Minnesota

Hi-Tech Express Inc.

Eagan, MN · ~23 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hi-Tech Express Inc. runs at 280% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade F.

Hi-Tech Express Inc.: 12.6 TCR = 280% of Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hi-Tech Express Inc. safety composite

Hi-Tech Express Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Hi-Tech Express Inc.: 10.1 → 13.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 14.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.69× in 2022

Hi-Tech Express Inc.'s TCR rose 3.0 from 10.1 in 2020 to 13.1 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 14.7 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Eagan, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.6 · 280% of ind

  • DART 8.7 DART
  • RANK #72/74
  • PHOTO Elder Logistics Wash…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Elder Logistics Washington Operations (0.1 TCR gap)

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Hi-Tech Express Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hi-Tech Express Inc. averages 12.6 TCR (280% of the Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

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

Hi-Tech Express Inc. TCR series: 2020=10.1 · 2021=14.7 · 2022=13.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Hi-Tech Express Inc. falls in its industry

3,252 Trucking, general freight, lon establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #72 safest of 74 Trucking, general freight, lon employers in Minnesota.

Hi-Tech Express Inc. (23 employees, TCR 12.6) 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 Hi-Tech Express Inc.
Hi-Tech Express Inc. (23 employees, TCR 12.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Hi-Tech Express Inc. has fewer employees than the Trucking, general freight, 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
2022 13.1 8.7 3 0 0
2021 14.7 9.8 3 0 0
2020 10.1 3.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · MN · Eagan

3,252 Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 285 employers in Eagan, MN · 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 Elder Logistics Washington Operations 12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR PA-Leesport 12.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Division 20 - BBU Huntington 12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR GaryAmothTrucking 12.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Brooten 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Dairy, Alpha Foods, LLP 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE MNHT-SEL-HIGHWAY 12' 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fergus Falls CSC 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prime Therapeutics - Prime Landing & Remote 6,596 FTE
CITY-NEAR Thomson Reuters - Eagan 4,474 FTE
CITY-NEAR MSPXL0001 MSPXL0001 4,156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lifeworks Services, Inc 3,663 FTE
NAT-TCR Structural Modulars, Inc. 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 087004-Simsbury Po 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 361403-Clt-Independence Carrier Anx 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Yamaha Guitar Group, Inc 12.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE UGI Penn Natural Gas Southpoint 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Diamond Hill Plywood-Greenville 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4 Wheel Parts - Las Vegas 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Municipal Golf Course 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: 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.