General freight trucking, local · South Carolina

Knight's Trucking

Summerville, SC · ~35 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Knight's Trucking runs at 104% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General freight trucking, local workplace, earning a grade C.

Knight's Trucking: 4.7 TCR = 104% of General freight trucking, local BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knight's Trucking safety composite

Knight's Trucking scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 49%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−4.9

2022→2023

Knight's Trucking injury rate improved

Knight's Trucking's TCR fell 4.9 from 7.1 in 2022 to 2.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 7.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=7.1 · 2023=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Summerville, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.7 · 104% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #37/63
  • PHOTO Savannah
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Savannah (0.0 TCR gap)

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Knight's Trucking in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Knight's Trucking averages 4.7 TCR (104% of the General freight trucking, local BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Knight's Trucking TCR series: 2022=7.1 · 2023=2.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Knight's Trucking falls in its industry

2,784 General freight trucking, loca establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #37 safest of 63 General freight trucking, loca employers in South Carolina.

Knight's Trucking (35 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Knight's Trucking
Knight's Trucking (35 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Knight's Trucking has fewer employees than the General freight trucking, local median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 2.2 0.0 1 0 0
2022 7.1 2.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · SC · Summerville

2,784 General freight trucking, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 188 employers in Summerville, SC · 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 Savannah 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wilmington 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR NFI Interactive Logistics LLC-1510 CARGO CT 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR SNL Distribution Services Corp-Ensley 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Conway Service Center and Warehouse 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE FLORENCE DISTRICT OFFICE 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Power Delivery Operations (Charleston) 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Darlington County Water & Sewer Authority 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Thorne research - Omni one 478 FTE
CITY-NEAR Scout Boats, Inc 436 FTE
CITY-NEAR Summerville Medical Center 426 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1037 420 FTE
NAT-TCR Food City 065 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Century Plating Company 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR SNL Distribution Services Corp-Ensley 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Commonwealth Senior Living at Cockeysville 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Royal Park 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE VRS Austin, TX 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE VRS Sacramento, CA 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ponca City Discount Food 419 35 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.