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

Ploger Transportation

Norwalk, OH · ~95 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ploger Transportation runs at 46% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade A.

Ploger Transportation: 2.0 TCR = 46% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ploger Transportation safety composite

Ploger Transportation scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 51%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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

Ploger Transportation: 1.0 → 2.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.97× in 2024

Ploger Transportation's TCR rose 0.9 from 1.0 in 2022 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Norwalk, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 2.0 · 46% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #61/186
  • PHOTO Tuente Trucking Inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~95 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tuente Trucking Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ploger Transportation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ploger Transportation averages 2.0 TCR (46% 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

Ploger Transportation TCR series: 2022=1 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=2 · BLS 4.5

Where Ploger Transportation falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #61 safest of 186 General freight trucking, long employers in Ohio.

Ploger Transportation (95 employees, TCR 2.0) 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 Ploger Transportation
Ploger Transportation (95 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Ploger Transportation 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 2.0 2.0 2 0 0
2023 3.1 1.1 3 0 0
2022 1.0 1.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · OH · Norwalk

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 60 employers in Norwalk, OH · 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 Tuente Trucking Inc 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carter Express - Vandalia, OH 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Triple J Enterprise Inc 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dedicated Oregon 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. - Grand Rapids, OH Production Plant 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Continental Building Company 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bowlin Services LLC 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Schaefer Group, Inc. 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fisher Titus Medical Center 1,024 FTE
CITY-NEAR R+L Carriers - NOR 387 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1986 365 FTE
CITY-NEAR Borgers 337 FTE
NAT-TCR Red Horse Seed Production, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Jenkins Ford Lincoln of Crystal River 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hi Pro Feeds Comanche 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lunar Distribution, LLC 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Keslaw Logistics LLC 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE D1930 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eagle Railcar Services - Fitzgerald, Georgia LLC 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Circle S Ranch NC 95 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, 2022. 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.