General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) · Tennessee

MEM-ESS

Memphis, TN · ~20 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

MEM-ESS runs at 121% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) workplace, earning a grade D.

MEM-ESS: 5.5 TCR = 121% of General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

MEM-ESS safety composite

MEM-ESS scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 52%), 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)
D 5.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% 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%).

Rising injury rate

MEM-ESS: 0.0 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 12.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

MEM-ESS's TCR rose 4.9 from 0.0 in 2021 to 4.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 12.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Memphis, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 121% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #75/123
  • PHOTO UBY
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: UBY (0.0 TCR gap)

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MEM-ESS in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows MEM-ESS averages 5.5 TCR (121% of the General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS benchmark).

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

MEM-ESS TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=12.4 · 2024=4.9 · BLS 4.5

Where MEM-ESS falls in its industry

3,020 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #75 safest of 123 General freight trucking, long employers in Tennessee.

MEM-ESS (20 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 MEM-ESS
MEM-ESS (20 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

MEM-ESS has fewer employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, median and a lower 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 4.9 0.0 1 0 0
2023 12.4 12.4 3 0 0
2022 4.4 4.4 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · TN · Memphis

3,020 General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 1,330 employers in Memphis, TN · 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 UBY 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Boise ID FXFE-BSE 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR South Las Vegas NV FXFE-SLV 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR LAS-ODFL 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Machine Harvest 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Columbia DREMC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE CEMC-Gallatin 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR FedEx 2903 SPRANKLE DR 12,398 FTE
CITY-NEAR 381940311 9,861 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Residential Services 5,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Jude Children's Research Hospital 5,599 FTE
NAT-TCR Huntington Fire Company #3 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Excalibur Hotel and Casino 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Cardington Yutaka Technologies, Inc 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Carilion Clinic Property Maintenance Co. 25 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE OCA 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE TUP 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE WCO 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Inwood Outlet #304 20 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.