General freight trucking, local · Illinois

Midwest Cargo Systems, Inc

Hodgkins, IL · ~93 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Midwest Cargo Systems, Inc runs at 59% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General freight trucking, local workplace, earning a grade B.

Midwest Cargo Systems, Inc: 2.6 TCR = 59% of General freight trucking, local BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Midwest Cargo Systems, Inc safety composite

Midwest Cargo Systems, Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 50%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Midwest Cargo Systems, Inc: 2.5 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.17× in 2024

Midwest Cargo Systems, Inc's TCR rose 1.3 from 2.5 in 2020 to 3.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Hodgkins, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 59% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #42/161
  • PHOTO Streetsboro
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~93 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Streetsboro (0.0 TCR gap)

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Midwest Cargo Systems, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Midwest Cargo Systems, Inc averages 2.6 TCR (59% of the General freight trucking, local BLS benchmark).

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

Midwest Cargo Systems, Inc TCR series: 2020=2.5 · 2021=1.5 · 2022=3.1 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Midwest Cargo Systems, Inc falls in its industry

2,784 General freight trucking, loca establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #42 safest of 161 General freight trucking, loca employers in Illinois.

Midwest Cargo Systems, Inc (93 employees, TCR 2.6) 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 Midwest Cargo Systems, Inc
Midwest Cargo Systems, Inc (93 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Midwest Cargo Systems, Inc has more 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2024 3.9 3.1 5 0 0
2023 2.2 1.4 3 0 0
2022 3.1 2.4 4 0 0
2021 1.5 1.5 2 0 0
2020 2.5 2.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · IL · Hodgkins

2,784 General freight trucking, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 34 employers in Hodgkins, 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 Streetsboro 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Melrose 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bulk First LLC 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR DCC : 5391-00 PV Transport-DCC/Coldwater, MI 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE ILAWC Interurban 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allied Power Services - Exelon, LaSalle Station 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kinney Contractors Inc 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tecta America 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILHOD - CHICAGO AREA CONSOLIDATION HUB 8,102 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHICAGO AREA CONSOLIDATION HUB (ILHOD) 6,953 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tara International LP 840 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1892 418 FTE
NAT-TCR Brekhus Tile & Stone 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Fleetwood-Fibre Packaging & Graphics 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Gestamp Chattanooga II, LLC 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Calavo 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Curtis-C Roofing 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Custom-1 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Titan Display & Packaging 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rowleys Wholesale MIBC 93 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, 2020. 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.