Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) · Iowa

Oberg Freight Company

Fort Dodge, IA · ~106 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Oberg Freight Company runs at 9% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade A.

Oberg Freight Company: 0.4 TCR = 9% of Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Oberg Freight Company safety composite

Oberg Freight Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% 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

Oberg Freight Company: 0.0 → 0.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 0.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.98× in 2022

Oberg Freight Company's TCR rose 0.8 from 0.0 in 2018 to 0.8 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Fort Dodge, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 9% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #3/69
  • PHOTO San Bernardino, CA -…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~106 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: San Bernardino, CA - Santa Fe (0.0 TCR gap)

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Oberg Freight Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Oberg Freight Company averages 0.4 TCR (9% of the Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

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

Oberg Freight Company TCR series: 2018=0 · 2022=0.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Oberg Freight Company falls in its industry

3,252 Trucking, general freight, lon establishments

Safer than 98% 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 #3 safest of 69 Trucking, general freight, lon employers in Iowa.

Oberg Freight Company (106 employees, TCR 0.4) 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 Oberg Freight Company
Oberg Freight Company (106 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Oberg Freight Company has more employees than the Trucking, general freight, 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 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · IA · Fort Dodge

3,252 Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 75 employers in Fort Dodge, 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 San Bernardino, CA - Santa Fe 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR TTI- Winston Salem, NC 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR FedEx Custom Critical, Inc. 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Landstar - Jacksonville HQ 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Vincent 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gates Corporation Newton, IA. 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE CPM Roskamp Champion 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE LeMars - Main Store 106 FTE
CITY-NEAR UnityPoint Health - Trinity Regional Medical Center 790 FTE
CITY-NEAR Unity Point Trinity Regional Medical Center 648 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Dodge Terminal 539 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Dodge Correctional Facility 452 FTE
NAT-TCR North American Drillers, LLC 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR LET 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Gomez Harvesting 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 4192-00051423-SDG 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE BMWC Constructors Gulf Coast, Inc. 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Construction 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Springdale 275 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Food City Store #620 106 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, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.