General freight trucking, local · Ohio

HLC Trucking Co

Shadyside, OH · ~28 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

HLC Trucking Co runs at 83% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General freight trucking, local workplace, earning a grade C.

HLC Trucking Co: 3.7 TCR = 83% of General freight trucking, local BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HLC Trucking Co safety composite

HLC Trucking Co scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.1

2016→2024

HLC Trucking Co injury rate improved

HLC Trucking Co's TCR fell 4.1 from 7.2 in 2016 to 3.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.2 · 2017=4.9 · 2018=2.7 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=3.7 · 2022=9.2 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Shadyside, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 83% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #81/186
  • PHOTO New Orleans
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: New Orleans (0.0 TCR gap)

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

HLC Trucking Co in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HLC Trucking Co averages 3.7 TCR (83% of the General freight trucking, local BLS benchmark).

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

HLC Trucking Co TCR series: 2016=7.2 · 2017=4.9 · 2018=2.7 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=3.7 · 2022=9.2 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 4.5

Where HLC Trucking Co falls in its industry

2,784 General freight trucking, loca establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #81 safest of 186 General freight trucking, loca employers in Ohio.

HLC Trucking Co (28 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate HLC Trucking Co
HLC Trucking Co (28 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

HLC Trucking Co has fewer employees than the General freight trucking, local median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 3.1 0.0 1 0 1
2023 2.9 0.0 1 0 0
2022 9.2 9.2 3 0 0
2021 3.7 3.7 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2017 4.9 4.9 2 0 0
2016 7.2 4.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · OH · Shadyside

2,784 General freight trucking, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 10 employers in Shadyside, OH · 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 New Orleans 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ace Corporate Support 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eagle Transport Corporation - Salisbury 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Reilley Trucking Inc. 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE H and M Building 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fine Oak Farm 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Case Farms Canton Hatchery 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Small's Sand & Gravel, Inc. 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Continuing Healthcare Shadyside LLC 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR Continuing Healthcare of Shadyside 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ohio-West Virginia Excavating 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR OH - Shadyside 67 FTE
NAT-TCR MS JOW Center 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Whistler Machine Works, Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Rick Case Kia (Duluth) 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Transportation 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Knapheide Truck Equipment Co Midsouth 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ephrata Store 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lemoyne Store 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Louis L. Buttermark & Sons, Inc. 28 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, 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.