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

Ozark Motor Lines, Inc

Memphis, TN · ~875 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ozark Motor Lines, Inc runs at 64% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade B.

Ozark Motor Lines, Inc: 2.9 TCR = 64% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ozark Motor Lines, Inc safety composite

Ozark Motor Lines, Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

−0.5

2023→2024

Ozark Motor Lines, Inc injury rate improved

Ozark Motor Lines, Inc's TCR fell 0.5 from 3.2 in 2023 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=3.2 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Memphis, TN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.9 · 64% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #60/128
  • PHOTO Avenel (Shop)
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 66 inj
  • SIZE ~875 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Avenel (Shop) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ozark Motor Lines, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ozark Motor Lines, Inc averages 2.9 TCR (64% 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

Ozark Motor Lines, Inc TCR series: 2023=3.2 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Ozark Motor Lines, Inc falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #60 safest of 128 General freight trucking, long employers in Tennessee.

Ozark Motor Lines, Inc (875 employees, TCR 2.9) 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 Ozark Motor Lines, Inc
Ozark Motor Lines, Inc (875 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Ozark Motor Lines, 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
2024 2.6 1.3 28 1 0
2023 3.2 1.8 38 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · TN · Memphis

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 1,330 employers in Memphis, TN · 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 Avenel (Shop) 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Paschall Truck Lines, Inc 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 7839 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Franklin Logistics, Inc. 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE SumiRiko 874 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maryville Sanford Division 874 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crew One Productions - Nashville / Chattanooga 874 FTE
STATE-SIZE HealthTrust Corporate - PL 10209, 10250, 10252, 10253 874 FTE
CITY-NEAR FedEx 2903 SPRANKLE DR 12,398 FTE
CITY-NEAR 381940311 9,861 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Residential Services 5,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Jude Children's Research Hospital 5,599 FTE
NAT-TCR Black River Electric Cooperative 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Buckeye Forest at Fairfield 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR San Diego Operations 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ringneck Energy, LLC 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Federal Reserve Bank Of Philadelphia 875 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marmic Fire & Safety Company Inc. 875 FTE
NAT-SIZE Troy, OH 875 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mount Airy Casino Resort 875 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. 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.