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

Hirschbach Motor Lines, Inc

Dubuque, IA · ~1,110 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hirschbach Motor Lines, Inc runs at 93% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade C.

Hirschbach Motor Lines, Inc: 4.2 TCR = 93% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hirschbach Motor Lines, Inc safety composite

Hirschbach Motor Lines, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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

Hirschbach Motor Lines, Inc: 2.7 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 86.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.6× in 2022

Hirschbach Motor Lines, Inc's TCR rose 2.2 from 2.7 in 2016 to 4.9 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 86.3 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Dubuque, IA AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 4.2 · 93% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #49/69
  • PHOTO Moberly (Onsite at W…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 440 inj
  • SIZE ~1,110 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Moberly (Onsite at Walmart) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hirschbach Motor Lines, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hirschbach Motor Lines, Inc averages 4.2 TCR (93% 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

Hirschbach Motor Lines, Inc TCR series: 2016=2.7 · 2017=2.2 · 2018=1.9 · 2019=6.3 · 2020=7.2 · 2021=86.3 · 2022=4.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Hirschbach Motor Lines, Inc falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #49 safest of 69 General freight trucking, long employers in Iowa.

Hirschbach Motor Lines, Inc (1,110 employees, TCR 4.2) 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 Hirschbach Motor Lines, Inc
Hirschbach Motor Lines, Inc (1,110 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Hirschbach Motor Lines, 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
2022 4.9 2.5 120 10 0
2021 86.3 44.3 98 13 0
2020 7.2 6.1 74 18 0
2019 6.3 3.9 88 0 0
2018 1.9 1.9 22 1 0
2017 2.2 2.2 22 0 0
2016 2.7 2.7 16 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · IA · Dubuque

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 217 employers in Dubuque, IA · 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 Moberly (Onsite at Walmart) 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR HENIFF TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS LLC - KANKAKEE, IL 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peachtree City Office 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR CHS CST 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Smithfield Foods Denison IA 1,103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mercy Medical Center 1,099 FTE
STATE-SIZE FBL Financial Group Inc., Corporate Headquarters 1,123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri-City Electric Co. 1,124 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Dubuque Works 2,518 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center-Dubuque-MHS-IA/NE 1,296 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne Dubuque 1,285 FTE
CITY-NEAR UnityPoint Health Finley Hospital 835 FTE
NAT-TCR Bed Bath and Beyond Sir Barton Way Lexington 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR college park industries warren 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR SPX Transformer Solutions, Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Spring Plant RMC 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE US3 - Spartanburg Plant 1,110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amzl : Dsf4 1,110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Minneapolis Police Department 1,110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sierra Conservation Center 1,110 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.