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

Hinz Trucking, Inc.

Elm Creek, NE · ~67 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hinz Trucking, Inc. runs at 391% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade F.

Hinz Trucking, Inc.: 17.6 TCR = 391% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hinz Trucking, Inc. safety composite

Hinz Trucking, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 0%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 50 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% 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

Hinz Trucking, Inc.: 0.0 → 50.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 50.0 TCR · DART/TCR 2.84× in 2023

Hinz Trucking, Inc.'s TCR rose 50.0 from 0.0 in 2021 to 50.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Elm Creek, NE ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.6 · 391% of ind

  • DART 50.0 DART
  • RANK #47/48
  • PHOTO FAS BWI
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~67 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FAS BWI (0.2 TCR gap)

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Hinz Trucking, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hinz Trucking, Inc. averages 17.6 TCR (391% 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

Hinz Trucking, Inc. TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=2.8 · 2023=50 · BLS 4.5

Where Hinz Trucking, Inc. falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #47 safest of 48 General freight trucking, long employers in Nebraska.

Hinz Trucking, Inc. (67 employees, TCR 17.6) 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 Hinz Trucking, Inc.
Hinz Trucking, Inc. (67 employees, TCR 17.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Hinz Trucking, Inc. has more employees than the General freight trucking, 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
2023 50.0 50.0 1 0 0
2022 2.8 2.8 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · NE · Elm Creek

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 3 employers in Elm Creek, NE · 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 FAS BWI 17.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR HENIFF TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS LLC - LAKELAND, FL 050 17.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR VA-Winchester-Field Office 18.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blizzard Transportation LLC 18.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Waterloo 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE H&S Plumbing 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electronic Contracting Company - Lincoln 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Frazier Co.-Main 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR AG DRYER SERVICES IN 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR KAAPA Grains, LLC 17 FTE
NAT-TCR The Shores of Sheboygan 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Westminster Police Department 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Les Schwab Tire Center-Moscow 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Kearneys' Aluminum Foundry, Inc. 17.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Spring Hills Lake Mary 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Altoona Health & Rehab, Inc. 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE TN105 Lebanon (American Corrugated) 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chelsea at Bridgewater 67 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. 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.