Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) · Arkansas

JR's Trucking

Van Buren, AR · ~37 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

JR's Trucking runs at 33% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade A.

JR's Trucking: 1.5 TCR = 33% of Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

JR's Trucking safety composite

JR's Trucking scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

JR's Trucking: 0.0 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 2.86× in 2021

JR's Trucking's TCR rose 4.3 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.3 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 2.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Van Buren, AR AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 33% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #27/73
  • PHOTO Syracuse, NY - 241 F…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Syracuse, NY - 241 Farrell Rd (0.0 TCR gap)

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JR's Trucking in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows JR's Trucking averages 1.5 TCR (33% of the Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

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

JR's Trucking TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=2.9 · 2019=0 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=4.3 · BLS 4.5

Where JR's Trucking falls in its industry

3,252 Motor freight carrier, general establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 73 Motor freight carrier, general employers in Arkansas.

JR's Trucking (37 employees, TCR 1.5) 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 JR's Trucking
JR's Trucking (37 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

JR's Trucking has fewer employees than the Motor freight carrier, general, long-dis median and a lower 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
2021 4.3 4.3 3 0 0
2020 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 2.9 2.9 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · AR · Van Buren

3,252 Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 71 employers in Van Buren, AR · 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 Syracuse, NY - 241 Farrell Rd 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Trucking, Inc AZ 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tampa, FL - N. Nebraska Avenue 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR OH-Columbus-Operating Center 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Turner at Evergreen Packaging Pine Bluff AR 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE PI Roof Maintenance Inc. 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ridout - Door 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Paltech Enterprises of Arkansas - Carthage, MO 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Buren Drivers 1,245 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Buren Plant 1,089 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Buren General Office 850 FTE
CITY-NEAR VBR 751 FTE
NAT-TCR Zep Emerson 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR NeoPhotonics Fremont 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Fairfield Inn & Suites 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Kraft Power Corporation - NJ 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Village at Alameda (ALF) 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE BEC Co-Packers 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Texas City Office 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Adell Cooperative 37 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: 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.