General freight trucking, local · Kentucky

Louisville Cartage Company

Name: Louisville Cartage Company Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Louisville, KY · ~45 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 2.0
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 1
Fatality

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The verdict

Louisville Cartage Company runs at 44% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General freight trucking, local workplace, earning a grade A.

Louisville Cartage Company: 2.0 TCR = 44% of General freight trucking, local BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Louisville Cartage Company safety composite

Louisville Cartage Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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).

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers
Fatalities: F 1

Safer than 1% 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

−5.4

2016→2023

Louisville Cartage Company injury rate improved

Louisville Cartage Company's TCR fell 5.4 from 8.1 in 2016 to 2.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 8.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.1 · 2017=2.6 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Louisville, KY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 2.0 · 44% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #17/57
PHOTO 132
BOOK 8y book
INJ 6 inj
SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 132 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Americold 3PL

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Knight Transpo

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What this shows Louisville Cartage Company averages 2.0 TCR (44% of the General freight trucking, local BLS benchmark).

Louisville Cartage Company TCR series: 2016=8.1 · 2017=2.6 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=2.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Louisville Cartage Company falls in its industry

2,784 General freight trucking, loca establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 57 General freight trucking, loca employers in Kentucky.

Louisville Cartage Company (45 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Louisville Cartage Company has fewer employees than the General freight trucking, local median and a lower 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	Fatalities
2023	2.7	0.0	1	0
2022	0.0	0.0	0	0
2021	0.0	0.0	0	0
2020	2.3	0.0	1	1
2019	0.0	0.0	0	0
2018	0.0	0.0	0	0
2017	2.6	2.6	1	0
2016	8.1	8.1	3	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · KY · Louisville

2,784 General freight trucking, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 1,638 employers in Louisville, KY · 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	132	PLANT CITY, FL	2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Americold 3PL Atlanta - Transportation	ATLANTA, GA	2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Mid-East Truck & Tractor Service, Inc. OHIO	EAST CANTON, OH	2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Knight Transportation - Arizona Ports	PHOENIX, AZ	2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Hatchery	MAYFIELD	45 FTE
STATE-SIZE	PMI Field	WINCHESTER	45 FTE
STATE-SIZE	CLAYTON WATKINS CONSTRUCTION CO INC	LEITCHFIELD	45 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Western Kentucky Construction	HOPKINSVILLE	45 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Jefferson County Public Schools	Louisville	18,524 FTE
CITY-NEAR	KYGRA - WORLDPORT	Louisville	11,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WORLDPORT (KYGRA)	Louisville	9,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR	KTKY TRUCK	Louisville	8,757 FTE
NAT-TCR	Krause Commercial Painting	Beltsville, MD	2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Zeco Machine Inc	Guthrie, OK	2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	North Bay Inn LLC	North Bay Village, FL	2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Plant 52/1S/2S/20	Dalton, GA	2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE	TyKo Logisitics LLC	Parkville, MO	45 FTE
NAT-SIZE	FST Logistics - Georgesville	Columbus, OH	45 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Willow Creek Electric, LLC	Grand Junction, CO	45 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Southern Lakes Plumbing and Heating, Inc.	Elkhorn, WI	45 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, 2017, 2016. 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.