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

K-Way Express, Inc

Winsted, MN · ~58 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

K-Way Express, Inc runs at 147% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade D.

K-Way Express, Inc: 6.6 TCR = 147% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

K-Way Express, Inc safety composite

K-Way Express, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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).

F

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.0

2017→2024

K-Way Express, Inc injury rate improved

K-Way Express, Inc's TCR fell 3.0 from 8.0 in 2017 to 5.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 13.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.0 · 2018=13.5 · 2020=5.0 · 2021=6.4 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=5.1 · 2024=5.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Winsted, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.6 · 147% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #60/74
  • PHOTO Fleetline, Inc
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fleetline, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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K-Way Express, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows K-Way Express, Inc averages 6.6 TCR (147% 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-Way Express, Inc TCR series: 2017=8 · 2018=13.5 · 2020=5 · 2021=6.4 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=5.1 · 2024=5 · BLS 4.5

Where K-Way Express, Inc falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #60 safest of 74 General freight trucking, long employers in Minnesota.

K-Way Express, Inc (58 employees, TCR 6.6) 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-Way Express, Inc
K-Way Express, Inc (58 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

K-Way Express, Inc has fewer 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 5.0 3.4 3 0 0
2023 5.1 1.7 3 0 0
2022 3.3 1.6 2 0 0
2021 6.4 3.2 4 0 0
2020 5.0 3.3 3 0 0
2018 13.5 4.5 9 0 0
2017 8.0 3.2 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · MN · Winsted

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 19 employers in Winsted, MN · 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 Fleetline, Inc 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR TCW, INC DALTON 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Reveille Trucking Terminal 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kansas City Terminal - NON DOT 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Vireo Health of MN - Otsego 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schwartz Farms SE Misc MN 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2101-Redwood Falls, MN (Monsanto Co.) 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Home Office 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR Littfin Truss Co 226 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tetra Pak Processing Equipment Inc - Winsted 193 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tetra Pak Processing Equipment Inc 170 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tetra Pak Inc. - Winsted 103 FTE
NAT-TCR KTA Super Stores - Puainako 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Landis Homes 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Iosco Medical Care Facility 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Melbourne Fl 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Boardwalk Cabinetry 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aleut Operations, LLC - Chicago Job Corps 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE T&T Plumbing and Heating, Inc. 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE LNH- Ward Ct. 58 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, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.