Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) · California

Mountain Valley Express Inc.

Stockton, CA · ~500 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mountain Valley Express Inc. runs at 167% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) workplace, earning a grade D.

Mountain Valley Express Inc.: 7.5 TCR = 167% of Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mountain Valley Express Inc. safety composite

Mountain Valley Express Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
C 3.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.4

2017→2019

Mountain Valley Express Inc. injury rate improved

Mountain Valley Express Inc.'s TCR fell 6.4 from 10.5 in 2017 to 4.1 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.5 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=10.5 · 2018=8.0 · 2019=4.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Stockton, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.5 · 167% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #187/273
  • PHOTO DPX- PETCO DALLAS TX
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 108 inj
  • SIZE ~500 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DPX- PETCO DALLAS TX (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mountain Valley Express Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mountain Valley Express Inc. averages 7.5 TCR (167% of the Motor freight carrier, general, 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

Mountain Valley Express Inc. TCR series: 2017=10.5 · 2018=8 · 2019=4.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Mountain Valley Express Inc. falls in its industry

3,020 Motor freight carrier, general establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #187 safest of 273 Motor freight carrier, general employers in California.

Mountain Valley Express Inc. (500 employees, TCR 7.5) 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Mountain Valley Express Inc.
Mountain Valley Express Inc. (500 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Mountain Valley Express Inc. has more employees than the Motor freight carrier, general, long-dis median and a higher 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
2019 4.1 3.2 26 0 0
2018 8.0 4.9 38 1 0
2017 10.5 10.5 44 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · CA · Stockton

3,020 Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 605 employers in Stockton, CA · 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 DPX- PETCO DALLAS TX 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR XHR 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seattle 223 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR NAS 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hilltown Packing Co., Inc. 500 FTE
STATE-SIZE TCCo-NorCal 500 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crystal Creamery, Inc. 500 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sherman Oaks Fashion Square 501 500 FTE
CITY-NEAR LaSalette Care and Rehabilitation Center 5,249 FTE
CITY-NEAR SCKCX0ABX SCK - ABX 4,573 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-18 4,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR CDCR CA Health Care Facility 3,227 FTE
NAT-TCR A. Colarusso and Son, Inc. (Highway Construction) 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Boston Harbor (HR) 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR The Hearth at Prestwick 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Henry Technologies 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE LTD Aurora (Westridge) # 7 500 FTE
NAT-SIZE MN,BEMIDJI - Medical Center Campus - Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists) 500 FTE
NAT-SIZE 24081 E. Mission Ave 500 FTE
NAT-SIZE HHG Lenoir Upholstery Plant 500 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.