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

Niece Trucking, Inc.

Des Moines, IA · ~205 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Niece Trucking, Inc. runs at 111% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade C.

Niece Trucking, Inc.: 5.0 TCR = 111% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Niece Trucking, Inc. safety composite

Niece Trucking, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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 5 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

Niece Trucking, Inc.: 3.9 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.83× in 2024

Niece Trucking, Inc.'s TCR rose 1.7 from 3.9 in 2021 to 5.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 5.0 · 111% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #53/69
  • PHOTO Barto Trucking, LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~205 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Barto Trucking, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Niece Trucking, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Niece Trucking, Inc. averages 5.0 TCR (111% 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

Niece Trucking, Inc. TCR series: 2021=3.9 · 2023=5.6 · 2024=5.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Niece Trucking, Inc. falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #53 safest of 69 General freight trucking, long employers in Iowa.

Niece Trucking, Inc. (205 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 Niece Trucking, Inc.
Niece Trucking, Inc. (205 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Niece Trucking, 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
2024 5.5 4.2 12 0 0
2023 5.6 4.4 14 0 0
2021 3.9 2.9 5 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · IA · Des Moines

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 525 employers in Des Moines, IA · 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 Barto Trucking, LLC 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR BJs Burlington/Burlington Local/National Road 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR AMA TRANSPORTATION CO INC 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR FG Transportation - Caldwell 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Van Maanen Electric, Inc. 205 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chariton Produce Commissary 205 FTE
STATE-SIZE Viking Pump Inc - Machine Shop (A Unit of IDEX Corporation) 205 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henderson Products Manchester 205 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Center 6,292 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines 4,884 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne Des Moines 3,547 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Moines Methodist Hospital 3,495 FTE
NAT-TCR City Line Hospitality Holdings, LP 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - BDL7 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Plymouth IN - Valmont Telecommunications, Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Southdale YMCA in Edina 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - WMI1 205 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bartow Paving Company Inc. 205 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3387 - Upper East Side 86th and Lex 205 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0565 Long Island City 205 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, 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.