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

K & J Trucking, Inc

Sioux Falls, SD · ~40 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

K & J Trucking, Inc runs at 21% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade A.

K & J Trucking, Inc: 0.9 TCR = 21% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

K & J Trucking, Inc safety composite

K & J Trucking, Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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

K & J Trucking, Inc: 0.0 → 2.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 2.8 TCR · DART/TCR 3× in 2021

K & J Trucking, Inc's TCR rose 2.8 from 0.0 in 2017 to 2.8 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Sioux Falls, SD AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 21% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #1/12
  • PHOTO Service Trucking Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Service Trucking Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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K & J Trucking, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows K & J Trucking, Inc averages 0.9 TCR (21% 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

K & J Trucking, Inc TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2021=2.8 · BLS 4.5

Where K & J Trucking, Inc falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 12 General freight trucking, long employers in South Dakota.

K & J Trucking, Inc (40 employees, TCR 0.9) 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 K & J Trucking, Inc
K & J Trucking, Inc (40 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

K & J Trucking, Inc has fewer employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, 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 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · SD · Sioux Falls

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 542 employers in Sioux Falls, SD · 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 Service Trucking Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Knight Refrigerated Dallas 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lakeland, FL - Interstate Drive 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ryder El Paso 9115 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pollock, SD 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE BCI - Sioux Falls Division 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE SONIFI Health, Inc. Sioux Falls Office 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Border States Electric - Sioux Falls 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR SD,Sioux Falls-Medical Center Campus-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals 6,424 FTE
CITY-NEAR SD,SIOUX FALLS - Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 4,818 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods 3,459 FTE
CITY-NEAR Avera McKennan Hospital 3,312 FTE
NAT-TCR Tupelo 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Olympia Outlet 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Salary 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Village Gate 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Capri Foods Inc. 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE PolyOne Corporation - Glendale, AZ 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Workplace Resource - SA Showroom 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Completion 40 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, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.