Freight Transportation · Texas

LAB

Abilene, TX · ~77 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

LAB runs at 155% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Freight Transportation workplace, earning a grade D.

LAB: 7.0 TCR = 155% of Freight Transportation BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

LAB safety composite

LAB scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 35%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−1.9

2016→2024

LAB injury rate improved

LAB's TCR fell 1.9 from 4.7 in 2016 to 2.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 15.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.7 · 2017=2.9 · 2018=10.1 · 2019=5.0 · 2020=9.8 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=8.0 · 2023=15.1 · 2024=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Abilene, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.0 · 155% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #186/237
  • PHOTO Methuen 070
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 57 inj
  • SIZE ~77 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Methuen 070 (0.0 TCR gap)

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LAB in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows LAB averages 7.0 TCR (155% of the Freight Transportation BLS benchmark).

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

LAB TCR series: 2016=4.7 · 2017=2.9 · 2018=10.1 · 2019=5 · 2020=9.8 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=8 · 2023=15.1 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 4.5

Where LAB falls in its industry

3,020 Freight Transportation establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #186 safest of 237 Freight Transportation employers in Texas.

LAB (77 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate LAB
LAB (77 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

LAB has more employees than the Freight Transportation median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 2.8 0.9 3 0 0
2023 15.1 7.1 15 2 0
2022 8.0 5.4 9 0 0
2021 4.5 3.6 5 0 0
2020 9.8 6.1 8 0 0
2019 5.0 5.0 4 0 0
2018 10.1 6.3 8 0 0
2017 2.9 1.5 2 0 0
2016 4.7 3.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · TX · Abilene

3,020 Freight Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 238 employers in Abilene, 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 Methuen 070 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR North Allentown PA FXFE-NAT 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Transport - 906 906SH 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR BURBANK CHI 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE FLOYDADA COOP GIN 2 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holman Well Service 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Woodlands Service Center 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.R. Horton, Inc. - Huntsville 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR HENDRICK MEDICAL CENTER 3,025 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hendrick Medical Center South 777 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lauren Engineers & Constructors, Inc. 588 FTE
CITY-NEAR Abilene CCD 573 FTE
NAT-TCR High-Day, Inc. 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 1321 Lkq 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Catherine LaBoure 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Diversicare of Foley 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hometown Insulation, Inc. 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Live Turkey - California MO Breeders 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Motor Components, LLC 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE HF Portland OR 77 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.