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

KALE Trucking Inc

Lima, OH · ~17 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

KALE Trucking Inc runs at 45% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade A.

KALE Trucking Inc: 2.0 TCR = 45% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KALE Trucking Inc safety composite

KALE Trucking Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

KALE Trucking Inc: 0.0 → 6.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.0 TCR · DART/TCR 3× in 2024

KALE Trucking Inc's TCR rose 6.0 from 0.0 in 2022 to 6.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Lima, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 2.0 · 45% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #56/186
  • PHOTO GBTI Inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GBTI Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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KALE Trucking Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows KALE Trucking Inc averages 2.0 TCR (45% 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

KALE Trucking Inc TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=6 · BLS 4.5

Where KALE Trucking Inc falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #56 safest of 186 General freight trucking, long employers in Ohio.

KALE Trucking Inc (17 employees, TCR 2.0) 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 KALE Trucking Inc
KALE Trucking Inc (17 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

KALE 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
2024 6.0 6.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · OH · Lima

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 243 employers in Lima, OH · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR GBTI Inc 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ryder RIL 8542 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR FTC Transportation 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR LAKE CHARLES TERMINAL 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Oakshade Dairy LLC 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1296-NiSource-Columbus OH - Front Street 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE GEM Industrial Inc. - Cenovus, Oregon Refinery 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE American Boring Inc 17 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health St Ritas Medical Center 2,540 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Rita's Medical Center 2,531 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Ritas Medical Center 2,445 FTE
CITY-NEAR LIMA ENGINE 1,457 FTE
NAT-TCR Vutex Inc 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR DG Foods 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR VIM Recyclers LP 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR AAkron Rule Corp 2.0 TCR

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. 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.