General freight trucking, local · Illinois

Northwest Trucks Inc.

Palatine, IL · ~49 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northwest Trucks Inc. runs at 135% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, local workplace, earning a grade D.

Northwest Trucks Inc.: 6.1 TCR = 135% of General freight trucking, local BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northwest Trucks Inc. safety composite

Northwest Trucks Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 35%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−5.0

2020→2023

Northwest Trucks Inc. injury rate improved

Northwest Trucks Inc.'s TCR fell 5.0 from 8.9 in 2020 to 3.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 8.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=8.9 · 2022=5.5 · 2023=3.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Palatine, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 135% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #105/161
  • PHOTO Eastvale
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Eastvale (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northwest Trucks Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northwest Trucks Inc. averages 6.1 TCR (135% of the General freight trucking, local BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Northwest Trucks Inc. TCR series: 2020=8.9 · 2022=5.5 · 2023=3.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Northwest Trucks Inc. falls in its industry

2,784 General freight trucking, loca establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #105 safest of 161 General freight trucking, loca employers in Illinois.

Northwest Trucks Inc. (49 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Northwest Trucks Inc.
Northwest Trucks Inc. (49 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Northwest Trucks Inc. has more employees than the General freight trucking, local median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 3.9 3.9 2 0 0
2022 5.5 1.8 3 0 0
2020 8.9 8.9 1 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · IL · Palatine

2,784 General freight trucking, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 66 employers in Palatine, IL · 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 Eastvale 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR CA_Perris_3300 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR NFI Interactive Logistics LLC-17 Orr Avenue 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR CAKET - KETTLEMAN CITY 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Boller Construction Co., Inc. 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Performance Pipelining INC 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM. Aupperle & Sons, Inc. 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE RI Glass Group 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Consolidated School District 15 1,957 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILPAL - PALATINE 1,701 FTE
CITY-NEAR PALATINE (ILPAL) 1,639 FTE
CITY-NEAR William Rainey Harper College 1,553 FTE
NAT-TCR Bashas 008 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Alcal Santa Rosa MP 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR First Student Wichita 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Continental Tide Defense Systems 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Adirondack Energy Products, Inc 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE 7018149 - Western Currency 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Kansas City 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE North America Fire Equipment Co., Inc. West 49 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, 2020. 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.