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

Knight Refrigerated Lakeland

Name: Knight Refrigerated Lakeland Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Lakeland, FL · ~53 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 2.2
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Knight Refrigerated Lakeland runs at 50% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade A.

Knight Refrigerated Lakeland: 2.2 TCR = 50% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knight Refrigerated Lakeland safety composite

Knight Refrigerated Lakeland scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

−4.5

2022→2023

Knight Refrigerated Lakeland injury rate improved

Knight Refrigerated Lakeland's TCR fell 4.5 from 4.5 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=4.5 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Lakeland, FL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 2.2 · 50% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #43/110
PHOTO Core Carrier Corpora…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 4 inj
SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Core Carrier Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.2
Core Carrier C

2.2
Sisbro, Inc.

2.2
Pennebaker

2.2
Schmidt Transp

2.2

What this shows Knight Refrigerated Lakeland averages 2.2 TCR (50% of the General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

Knight Refrigerated Lakeland TCR series: 2022=4.5 · 2023=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Knight Refrigerated Lakeland falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #43 safest of 110 General freight trucking, long employers in Florida.

Knight Refrigerated Lakeland (53 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Knight Refrigerated Lakeland 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
2023	0.0	0.0	0	0	0
2022	4.5	3.3	4	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · FL · Lakeland

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 426 employers in Lakeland, FL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Core Carrier Corporation	KANSAS CITY, KS	2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Sisbro, Inc.	QUINCY, IL	2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Pennebaker	BARDSTOWN, KY	2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Schmidt Transportation Inc.	PLATTSMOUTH, NE	2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Hunt Bros. Cooperative	LAKE WALES	53 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Insa Auburndale FL	AUBURNDALE	53 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Topiary Creations, Inc.	NAPLES	53 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Amerigo Farms Inc	MT. DORA	53 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Lakeland Regional Medical Center	Lakeland	5,518 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Lakeland Distribution	Lakeland	2,927 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Clinic	Lakeland	1,651 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Amazon.com Services LLC - KLAL	Lakeland	1,210 FTE
NAT-TCR	HGC Construction Co.	Cincinnati, OH	2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	DDH Apple Valley Construction Inc.	Apple Valley, CA	2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	UHL Company, Inc	Maple Grove, MN	2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Candlewood Suites	Indianapolis, IN	2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Fox Valley Delivery Service, LLC	Weyauwega, WI	53 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Optical Cable Corporation Asheville	Swannanoa, NC	53 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Graphic Arts Bindery LLC	Rochelle, IL	53 FTE
NAT-SIZE	*Germantown Community Health Services	Philadelphia, PA	53 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: 2023, 2022. 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.