Transportation · Iowa

Joy Ride Transport LLC

Grimes, IA · ~38 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Joy Ride Transport LLC runs at 171% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Transportation workplace, earning a grade D.

Joy Ride Transport LLC: 7.7 TCR = 171% of Transportation BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Joy Ride Transport LLC safety composite

Joy Ride Transport LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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

Joy Ride Transport LLC: 2.6 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 16.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Joy Ride Transport LLC's TCR rose 1.3 from 2.6 in 2017 to 4.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 16.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485999 · Grimes, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.7 · 171% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P18
  • PHOTO Keystone Quality Tra…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Keystone Quality Transport Company - Springfield Base (0.0 TCR gap)

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Joy Ride Transport LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Joy Ride Transport LLC averages 7.7 TCR (171% of the Transportation BLS benchmark).

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

Joy Ride Transport LLC TCR series: 2017=2.6 · 2019=12 · 2021=11.1 · 2022=0 · 2023=16.4 · 2024=4 · BLS 4.5

Where Joy Ride Transport LLC falls in its industry

83 Transportation establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Joy Ride Transport LLC (38 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Joy Ride Transport LLC
Joy Ride Transport LLC (38 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Joy Ride Transport LLC has fewer employees than the Transportation median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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 4.0 0.0 1 0 0
2023 16.4 16.4 4 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 11.1 11.1 2 0 0
2019 12.0 6.0 4 0 0
2017 2.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485999 · IA · Grimes

83 Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 65 employers in Grimes, 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 Keystone Quality Transport Company - Springfield Base 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 9277-4506002 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Keystone Quality Transport Company - Chesco Base 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 450 CME 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2050-Clarion, IA 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waukon Feed Ranch Agronomy Center 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Ames - Electric Production 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rognes Corp 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR National Carwash Solutions 698 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Moines Office 421 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grimes - Main Store 359 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5748 315 FTE
NAT-TCR WSM Industries LLC - Omaha 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR JBS Souderton INC 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Holimont Inc. 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Dixie Construction Services, Inc. 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0CR99 Foretravel of Texas Inc 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Star Engineering LLC 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE White Sands Construction, Inc. 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Norton Sons Roofing 38 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, 2019, 2017. 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.