Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) · South Dakota

Mid States Transport, Inc.

Sioux Falls, SD · ~22 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mid States Transport, Inc. runs at 132% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade D.

Mid States Transport, Inc.: 6.0 TCR = 132% of Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mid States Transport, Inc. safety composite

Mid States Transport, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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%).

TCR Δ

−17.9

2016→2024

Mid States Transport, Inc. injury rate improved

Mid States Transport, Inc.'s TCR fell 17.9 from 17.9 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 17.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=17.9 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Sioux Falls, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 132% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #11/12
  • PHOTO Mister P Express
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mister P Express (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mid States Transport, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mid States Transport, Inc. averages 6.0 TCR (132% of the Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

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

Mid States Transport, Inc. TCR series: 2016=17.9 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Mid States Transport, Inc. falls in its industry

3,252 Trucking, general freight, lon establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 12 Trucking, general freight, lon employers in South Dakota.

Mid States Transport, Inc. (22 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Mid States Transport, Inc.
Mid States Transport, Inc. (22 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Mid States Transport, Inc. has fewer employees than the Trucking, general freight, long-distance median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 17.9 3.6 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · SD · Sioux Falls

3,252 Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 542 employers in Sioux Falls, SD · 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 Mister P Express 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maverick Transportation, LLC - Portage, IN 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stoughton Trucking 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tidewater Transit-Decatur 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jackrabbit Family Farms, LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nelson Engineering Inc. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iron Horse Excavating, Inc 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rapid City Office 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR SD,Sioux Falls-Medical Center Campus-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals 6,424 FTE
CITY-NEAR SD,SIOUX FALLS - Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 4,818 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods 3,459 FTE
CITY-NEAR Avera McKennan Hospital 3,312 FTE
NAT-TCR Plant 1 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kirby Risk Distribution Center 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Native American Health Center 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR All-Phase Concrete Construction, Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center Corporation 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Technical Controls, Inc. 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Etheridge Roofing, Inc 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Custom Coatings, Inc. 22 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, 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.