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

Nichols Transportation Company Inc

Tacoma, WA · ~66 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nichols Transportation Company Inc runs at 233% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade F.

Nichols Transportation Company Inc: 10.5 TCR = 233% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nichols Transportation Company Inc safety composite

Nichols Transportation Company Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

−3.2

2022→2023

Nichols Transportation Company Inc injury rate improved

Nichols Transportation Company Inc's TCR fell 3.2 from 12.1 in 2022 to 8.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 12.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=12.1 · 2023=8.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Tacoma, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.5 · 233% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #38/45
  • PHOTO 03 PAR LTL
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~66 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 03 PAR LTL (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nichols Transportation Company Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nichols Transportation Company Inc averages 10.5 TCR (233% 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

Nichols Transportation Company Inc TCR series: 2022=12.1 · 2023=8.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Nichols Transportation Company Inc falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #38 safest of 45 General freight trucking, long employers in Washington.

Nichols Transportation Company Inc (66 employees, TCR 10.5) 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 Nichols Transportation Company Inc
Nichols Transportation Company Inc (66 employees, TCR 10.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Nichols Transportation Company Inc has more 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
2023 8.9 5.1 7 0 0
2022 12.1 5.2 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · WA · Tacoma

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 445 employers in Tacoma, WA · 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 03 PAR LTL 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR South East Carriers, Inc. 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR BNC HYB 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pittsburgh-Fayette Express Inc 10.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bench One Inc 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Araho 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE CSS Farms - Agri Pack 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shelton 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tacoma General Hospital (Companied 10 & 20) 3,718 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Tacoma 3,689 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tacoma General Hospital 3,247 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2643-46080001-460801 3,061 FTE
NAT-TCR Amarillo SW Service Center-001 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 100618 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Captek Softgel International - Vista 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Law Enforcement - Greensboro Jail 10.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lifoam North Andover 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fitzgerald's 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Birmingham Brick Plant 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bunzl Distribution Southeast, LLC (DBA Bunzl Tampa) 66 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.