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

Highlands

Highlands, TX · ~87 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Highlands runs at 27% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade A.

Highlands: 1.2 TCR = 27% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Highlands safety composite

Highlands scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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).

C

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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

Highlands: 0.0 → 2.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 3.3 TCR · DART/TCR 2.26× in 2021

Highlands's TCR rose 2.8 from 0.0 in 2016 to 2.8 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 2.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 27% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #56/297
  • PHOTO A.N. Webber, Inc. - …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~87 FTE

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

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Texas employers → · Look up another →

Highlands in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Highlands averages 1.2 TCR (27% 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 TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0.8 · 2019=0.4 · 2020=3.3 · 2021=2.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Highlands falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 85% 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 #56 safest of 297 General freight trucking, long employers in Texas.

Highlands (87 employees, TCR 1.2) 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
Highlands (87 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Highlands 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
2021 2.8 2.8 2 0 0
2020 3.3 3.3 1 1 0
2019 0.4 0.4 1 0 0
2018 0.8 0.4 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 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. - El Paso 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ozark, AL - County Road 18 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Service Transport St. Rose 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 7817 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hatchery- Longview,TX 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE USA Compression Partners - Southeast 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE MIDLAND SVC CTR 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3697 MAPLESHADE LN PLANO TX 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR ZXP Technologies 230 FTE
CITY-NEAR Highlands- Dry Bulk Transport 110 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plastipak- Highlands 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR FoodTown #209 93 FTE
NAT-TCR FANUC America Corporation - Rochester Hills 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 606 West Potter Avenue 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Greensburg Family Based Services 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR NOLA 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Boulder Manor 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Windermere Health and Rehabilitation Center 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jackson PDC 34 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE MFC Corp 87 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.