General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) · Illinois

MidWest Transportation

Granite City, IL · ~30 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

MidWest Transportation runs at 203% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade F.

MidWest Transportation: 9.2 TCR = 203% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

MidWest Transportation safety composite

MidWest Transportation scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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).

F

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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%).

Rising injury rate

MidWest Transportation: 7.4 → 11.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.95× in 2024

MidWest Transportation's TCR rose 4.2 from 7.4 in 2019 to 11.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Granite City, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.2 · 203% of ind

  • DART 8.7 DART
  • RANK #134/143
  • PHOTO North Platte Termina…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: North Platte Terminal - NON DOT (0.0 TCR gap)

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MidWest Transportation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows MidWest Transportation averages 9.2 TCR (203% of the General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

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

MidWest Transportation TCR series: 2019=7.4 · 2020=10.5 · 2021=9.8 · 2022=5.8 · 2023=9.8 · 2024=11.6 · BLS 4.5

Where MidWest Transportation falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #134 safest of 143 General freight trucking, long employers in Illinois.

MidWest Transportation (30 employees, TCR 9.2) 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 MidWest Transportation
MidWest Transportation (30 employees, TCR 9.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

MidWest Transportation has fewer employees than the General freight trucking, 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 11.6 8.7 4 0 0
2023 9.8 4.9 2 0 0
2022 5.8 5.8 1 0 0
2021 9.8 9.8 2 0 0
2020 10.5 7.0 2 1 0
2019 7.4 7.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · IL · Granite City

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 80 employers in Granite City, 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 North Platte Terminal - NON DOT 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR macon terminal 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Granite Transportation 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Christy Trucking Company, LLC 9.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Odell Fire 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Northern N - IL Common Ops 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chicago Loop Tech 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spoon River Electric Cooperative, Inc. 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Granite City Works 976 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amsted Rail Company Inc 797 FTE
CITY-NEAR Granite City Plant 563 FTE
CITY-NEAR icon Mechanical LLC 448 FTE
NAT-TCR Baldwinsville - North Plant 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Macon GA FXFE-MCN 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Belmont Village Calabasas 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Better Brands of Albany 9.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Renaissance House, Inc. Sandusky Ohio 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Safran Landing Systems (DAL) 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mohr Stamping Inc. 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Symmetrix Composite Tooling 30 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, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.