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

Norsemen Trucking Inc

Lake Mills, IA · ~80 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Norsemen Trucking Inc runs at 29% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade A.

Norsemen Trucking Inc: 1.3 TCR = 29% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Norsemen Trucking Inc safety composite

Norsemen Trucking Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).

C

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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

Norsemen Trucking Inc: 1.0 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 2.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2022

Norsemen Trucking Inc's TCR rose 1.7 from 1.0 in 2016 to 2.6 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.9 TCR. In 2022, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Lake Mills, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 29% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #20/69
  • PHOTO Simon's Trucking Inc.
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Simon's Trucking Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Norsemen Trucking Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Norsemen Trucking Inc averages 1.3 TCR (29% 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

Norsemen Trucking Inc TCR series: 2016=1 · 2017=2.9 · 2018=1.3 · 2019=0.1 · 2020=0 · 2021=1.3 · 2022=2.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Norsemen Trucking Inc falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 83% 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 #20 safest of 69 General freight trucking, long employers in Iowa.

Norsemen Trucking Inc (80 employees, TCR 1.3) 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 Norsemen Trucking Inc
Norsemen Trucking Inc (80 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Norsemen Trucking Inc has more employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, median and a lower 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
2022 2.6 1.3 2 0 0
2021 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.1 0.0 1 0 0
2018 1.3 0.0 1 0 0
2017 2.9 1.9 3 0 0
2016 1.0 1.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · IA · Lake Mills

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 · 7 employers in Lake Mills, 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 Simon's Trucking Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Haven, CT - Industry Drive Extension 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 300000170855522 - WI-Green Bay-CSBC 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seymour, IN - E. 4th Street 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Storm Lake Turkey Farms 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE DMDL 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Calacci Construction Company, Inc. 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Synergy Contracting, LLC 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR Iowa Operations 261 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lake Mills 142 FTE
CITY-NEAR Winnebago Industries - Lake Mills 122 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lake Mills Care Center 73 FTE
NAT-TCR MARRc, LLC dba Rand Technology 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR The Amalagamated Sugar Company LLC 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR RTI-Martinsville 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 939 Kankakee Community College 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Priority Toyota Hampton 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Old Memorial Club Inc 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Texas Fixtures and Interiors, Inc. 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE California Rail Builders 80 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.