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

Knight Transportation Katy

Katy, TX · ~129 workers · 4 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

Knight Transportation Katy runs at 34% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade A.

Knight Transportation Katy: 1.5 TCR = 34% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knight Transportation Katy safety composite

Knight Transportation Katy scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% 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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% 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

−0.6

2021→2024

Knight Transportation Katy injury rate improved

Knight Transportation Katy's TCR fell 0.6 from 1.3 in 2021 to 0.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=1.3 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=0.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Katy, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 34% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #81/297
  • PHOTO MEM LTL
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~129 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MEM LTL (0.0 TCR gap)

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Knight Transportation Katy in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Knight Transportation Katy averages 1.5 TCR (34% 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

Knight Transportation Katy TCR series: 2021=1.3 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=0.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Knight Transportation Katy falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #81 safest of 297 General freight trucking, long employers in Texas.

Knight Transportation Katy (129 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 Knight Transportation Katy
Knight Transportation Katy (129 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Knight Transportation Katy has more 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 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2023 2.3 0.6 4 0 0
2022 1.9 1.9 3 0 0
2021 1.3 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · TX · Katy

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 240 employers in Katy, TX · 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 MEM LTL 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dot Transportation, Inc.- OK 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atlanta Terminal 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR BARBER TERMINAL 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Petro Mechanical and Supply, LLC 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Houston Center of Excellence - Bld: TXHS - 53 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brownstone Construction 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Taylor Morrison Dallas Division 129 FTE
CITY-NEAR Manufacturing 2,743 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - HOU5 1,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR Igloo Products Corp 1,464 FTE
CITY-NEAR Katy DC - Katy TX 1,215 FTE
NAT-TCR ECC 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Altium Packaging - Jefferson St 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lins Overton 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Madison Electric, Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Poole Family Ymca - Ymca of the Triangle 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Michels Power Inc-NH-Pembroke 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wahpeton Cargill Corn Milling 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Firelands Technology Ventures, LLC 129 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.