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

Highlands- Dry Bulk Transport

Highlands, TX · ~110 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Highlands- Dry Bulk Transport runs at 50% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade A.

Highlands- Dry Bulk Transport: 2.3 TCR = 50% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Highlands- Dry Bulk Transport safety composite

Highlands- Dry Bulk Transport scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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).

D

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 3% 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

Highlands- Dry Bulk Transport: 1.2 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.47× in 2024

Highlands- Dry Bulk Transport's TCR rose 3.8 from 1.2 in 2022 to 5.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Highlands, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 2.3 · 50% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #128/297
  • PHOTO A.N. Webber, Inc. - …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~110 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: A.N. Webber, Inc. - Kankakee (0.0 TCR gap)

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Highlands- Dry Bulk Transport in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Highlands- Dry Bulk Transport averages 2.3 TCR (50% 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

Highlands- Dry Bulk Transport TCR series: 2022=1.2 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=5 · BLS 4.5

Where Highlands- Dry Bulk Transport falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #128 safest of 297 General freight trucking, long employers in Texas.

Highlands- Dry Bulk Transport (110 employees, TCR 2.3) 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 Highlands- Dry Bulk Transport
Highlands- Dry Bulk Transport (110 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Highlands- Dry Bulk Transport has more employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, 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 5.0 3.3 9 0 1
2023 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2022 1.2 1.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · TX · Highlands

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5 employers in Highlands, TX · 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 A.N. Webber, Inc. - Kankakee 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Phoenix, AZ - 625 S 27th Avenue 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pompano Beach, FL - NW 33rd 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Design Transportation Services Inc 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Freeport LNG HQ 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pearsall 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE American Communications Construction, Inc. 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Invista Houston TX 110 FTE
CITY-NEAR ZXP Technologies 230 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plastipak- Highlands 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR FoodTown #209 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR Highlands 87 FTE
NAT-TCR Teknor Apex Company - Rhode Island 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR International Paper Kennett Square Warehouse 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Shasta Beverages, inc Lenexa 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Nippon Paint Automotive Americas, Inc. - Lansing 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE High Associates Ltd. 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Palram Americas-P2000 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grain Belt Supply Company Inc 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lewis Brothers Lumber Co., Inc. 110 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.