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

Nichols Trucking Company

Tacoma, WA · ~54 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nichols Trucking Company runs at 152% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade D.

Nichols Trucking Company: 6.8 TCR = 152% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nichols Trucking Company safety composite

Nichols Trucking Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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

−8.1

2021→2024

Nichols Trucking Company injury rate improved

Nichols Trucking Company's TCR fell 8.1 from 10.9 in 2021 to 2.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 10.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=10.9 · 2024=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.8 · 152% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #34/45
  • PHOTO Pacific Drayage Serv…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pacific Drayage Services Compton (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nichols Trucking Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nichols Trucking Company averages 6.8 TCR (152% 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 Trucking Company TCR series: 2021=10.9 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Nichols Trucking Company falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 13% 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 #34 safest of 45 General freight trucking, long employers in Washington.

Nichols Trucking Company (54 employees, TCR 6.8) 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 Trucking Company
Nichols Trucking Company (54 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Nichols Trucking Company 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 2.8 2.8 2 0 0
2021 10.9 6.5 5 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 Pacific Drayage Services Compton 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CST MKE 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Royal Alaskan Movers 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ryder DPSG (WC USX DPF) 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Seneca Foods, Dayton, WA Plant 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fallout 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Briarwood Farms 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE FV Frontier Explorer 54 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 Plant 2/4 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ohio County Healthcare 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR County Waste of Pennsylvania LLC 4 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Oribi Manufacturing, LLC 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Champion Container Corporation 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tnmeh - Livingston Healthcare Service Tn 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goshawk 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE UPMC Pinnacle Anesthesia Services LLC 54 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, 2021. 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.