Trucking, specialized freight (except used goods), long-distance · Illinois

Lotz Trucking Inc

Ottawa, IL · ~64 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lotz Trucking Inc runs at 20% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Trucking, specialized freight (except used goods), long-distance workplace, earning a grade A.

Lotz Trucking Inc: 0.9 TCR = 20% of Trucking, specialized freight (except used goods), long-distance BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lotz Trucking Inc safety composite

Lotz Trucking Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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

Lotz Trucking Inc: 0.0 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 2.6 TCR · DART/TCR 2.92× in 2023

Lotz Trucking Inc's TCR rose 2.6 from 0.0 in 2018 to 2.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484230 · Ottawa, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 20% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #6/56
  • PHOTO T159/659
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~64 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: T159/659 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lotz Trucking Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lotz Trucking Inc averages 0.9 TCR (20% of the Trucking, specialized freight (except used goods), long-distance BLS benchmark).

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

Lotz Trucking Inc TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=1.4 · 2021=1.3 · 2022=0 · 2023=2.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Lotz Trucking Inc falls in its industry

1,026 Trucking, specialized freight establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 56 Trucking, specialized freight employers in Illinois.

Lotz Trucking Inc (64 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 Lotz Trucking Inc
Lotz Trucking Inc (64 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Lotz Trucking Inc has more employees than the Trucking, specialized freight (except us median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 2.6 2.6 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2020 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484230 · IL · Ottawa

1,026 Trucking, specialized freight (except used goods), long-distance employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 67 employers in Ottawa, IL · 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 T159/659 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR UPT OKC 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR UPT Phoenix 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Transport Service 60336 Charlotte 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Central Sod 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central Sod Farms, Inc 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nashville 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alliance Contractors Inc 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR OSF Saint Elizabeth Medical Center 624 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint Elizabeth Medical Center 581 FTE
CITY-NEAR LaSalle County 500 FTE
CITY-NEAR 00000036 0036 OTTAWA DC 415 FTE
NAT-TCR Bond Brothers, Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR LMG Construction LLC 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Appalachian Pipeline Contractors, LLP 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR NV2A Group LLC 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Modern Mold and Tool Inc. 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE RIG Consulting, Inc 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Energy Works 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Askin Construction LLC 64 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.