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

Howard Transportation

Ellisville, MS · ~168 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Howard Transportation runs at 106% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade C.

Howard Transportation: 4.8 TCR = 106% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Howard Transportation safety composite

Howard Transportation scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 69% 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.0

2016→2024

Howard Transportation injury rate improved

Howard Transportation's TCR fell 4.0 from 4.7 in 2016 to 0.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 9.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.7 · 2017=7.2 · 2018=9.1 · 2019=6.6 · 2020=4.4 · 2021=4.1 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=2.7 · 2024=0.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Ellisville, MS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.8 · 106% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #35/44
  • PHOTO Smith Trucking Inc
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 72 inj
  • SIZE ~168 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Smith Trucking Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Howard Transportation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Howard Transportation averages 4.8 TCR (106% 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

Howard Transportation TCR series: 2016=4.7 · 2017=7.2 · 2018=9.1 · 2019=6.6 · 2020=4.4 · 2021=4.1 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=2.7 · 2024=0.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Howard Transportation falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 44 General freight trucking, long employers in Mississippi.

Howard Transportation (168 employees, TCR 4.8) 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 Howard Transportation
Howard Transportation (168 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Howard Transportation 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
2024 0.7 0.7 1 0 0
2023 2.7 2.7 4 0 0
2022 3.4 3.4 5 0 0
2021 4.1 3.0 7 0 1
2020 4.4 1.6 8 0 0
2019 6.6 4.4 10 2 0
2018 9.1 5.3 17 0 0
2017 7.2 6.6 12 2 0
2016 4.7 3.1 8 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · MS · Ellisville

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 19 employers in Ellisville, MS · 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 Smith Trucking Inc 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6223-702 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR JR Simplot Company, Food-Trans-Pasco 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR BCP Transportation, Inc. 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2662-3095 168 FTE
STATE-SIZE Attala County Nursing Center 168 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tupelo container 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE TOWER AUTOMOTIVE OPERATIONS USA1 - MADISON 169 FTE
CITY-NEAR Howard Technology Solutions 441 FTE
CITY-NEAR Howard Industries Inc. (Substation) 191 FTE
CITY-NEAR Operations Office 160 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tanner Construction Company Inc 119 FTE
NAT-TCR Select Specialty Hospital - Madison, Inc 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Heritage Hall Wise 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Jerseyville Manor 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Imperial Beef 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Elgin Industries 168 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heritage Hall Big Stone Gap 168 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heritage Hall Leesburg 168 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Muhlenberg College 168 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.