Transfer (trucking) services, general freight, local · Pennsylvania

Mesko Spotting Srevices

Allentown, PA · ~400 workers · 2 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

Mesko Spotting Srevices runs at 123% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Transfer (trucking) services, general freight, local workplace, earning a grade D.

Mesko Spotting Srevices: 5.5 TCR = 123% of Transfer (trucking) services, general freight, local BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mesko Spotting Srevices safety composite

Mesko Spotting Srevices scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 40%), 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).

D

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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

−3.1

2016→2017

Mesko Spotting Srevices injury rate improved

Mesko Spotting Srevices's TCR fell 3.1 from 7.1 in 2016 to 4.0 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.1 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.1 · 2017=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Allentown, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 123% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #107/194
  • PHOTO Apache Logistics, Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 49 inj
  • SIZE ~400 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Apache Logistics, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mesko Spotting Srevices in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mesko Spotting Srevices averages 5.5 TCR (123% of the Transfer (trucking) services, general freight, local BLS benchmark).

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

Mesko Spotting Srevices TCR series: 2016=7.1 · 2017=4 · BLS 4.5

Where Mesko Spotting Srevices falls in its industry

2,784 Transfer (trucking) services, establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #107 safest of 194 Transfer (trucking) services, employers in Pennsylvania.

Mesko Spotting Srevices (400 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 Mesko Spotting Srevices
Mesko Spotting Srevices (400 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Mesko Spotting Srevices has more employees than the Transfer (trucking) services, general fr 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
2017 4.0 3.8 20 0 0
2016 7.1 2.6 29 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · PA · Allentown

2,784 Transfer (trucking) services, general freight, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 447 employers in Allentown, PA · 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 Apache Logistics, Inc 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR NFI Interactive Logistics LLC-1421 Lowe's Way 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Penske : 3399-00 GM Switch and Shuttle/Flint, MI 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Herk Transport, Inc. 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE RADIAL INC 400 FTE
STATE-SIZE MDT1 400 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Disablities Services Foundation 400 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fulton County Medical Center 400 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lehigh Valley Hospital 9,463 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1200SCC 6,531 FTE
CITY-NEAR Air Products and Chemicals Inc.- Main Campus 2,118 FTE
CITY-NEAR LOCATION 48042 1,728 FTE
NAT-TCR 5472-Swy 0035 0853 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Greensboro Hub (Ncgre) 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Harrington (Demil) 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR MacDonald & Owen Sparta 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fort Wayne (Inftw) 400 FTE
NAT-SIZE PSDNCA71 400 FTE
NAT-SIZE HoneywellMN14 400 FTE
NAT-SIZE District 5 400 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: 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.