Trucking, general freight, local · Virginia

J R Tharpe Trucking

Rice, VA · ~116 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

J R Tharpe Trucking runs at 250% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Trucking, general freight, local workplace, earning a grade F.

J R Tharpe Trucking: 11.2 TCR = 250% of Trucking, general freight, local BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

J R Tharpe Trucking safety composite

J R Tharpe Trucking scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

J R Tharpe Trucking: 2.5 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 36.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.21× in 2023

J R Tharpe Trucking's TCR rose 1.5 from 2.5 in 2020 to 4.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 36.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Rice, VA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 11.2 · 250% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #56/59
  • PHOTO DCC : 5889-00 MOBIS-…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~116 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DCC : 5889-00 MOBIS-BHC-DCC/Lancaster, TX (0.0 TCR gap)

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J R Tharpe Trucking in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows J R Tharpe Trucking averages 11.2 TCR (250% of the Trucking, general freight, local BLS benchmark).

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

J R Tharpe Trucking TCR series: 2020=2.5 · 2021=36.8 · 2022=1.6 · 2023=4 · BLS 4.5

Where J R Tharpe Trucking falls in its industry

2,784 Trucking, general freight, loc establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #56 safest of 59 Trucking, general freight, loc employers in Virginia.

J R Tharpe Trucking (116 employees, TCR 11.2) 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 J R Tharpe Trucking
J R Tharpe Trucking (116 employees, TCR 11.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

J R Tharpe Trucking has more employees than the Trucking, general freight, local median and a higher 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
2023 4.0 2.4 5 0 0
2022 1.6 0.0 2 0 0
2021 36.8 36.8 1 0 0
2020 2.5 2.5 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · VA · Rice

2,784 Trucking, general freight, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 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 DCC : 5889-00 MOBIS-BHC-DCC/Lancaster, TX 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Penske : 5267-00 Primesource-DCC/Aberdeen, MD 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR CSWCHA 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR M&M - Medford Operations 11.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE VA BEACH 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE Appomattox Operation 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ronile, Inc. 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Ravenna 116 FTE
NAT-TCR BSI, LLC Fireplace 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Concord Care Center at Cortland 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Country Meadows of South Hills 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Pool Service 11.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE S02984 - Cocoa Hauling (Western/USA) 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE Newton Container 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE 124 - Walsh - Flour Design Build Team 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grand Traverse Container-GR 116 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, 2020. 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.