General freight trucking, local · Pennsylvania

Pottle's Transportation, LLC Kutztown Terminal

Kutztown, PA · ~34 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pottle's Transportation, LLC Kutztown Terminal runs at 197% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, local workplace, earning a grade D.

Pottle's Transportation, LLC Kutztown Terminal: 8.9 TCR = 197% of General freight trucking, local BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pottle's Transportation, LLC Kutztown Terminal safety composite

Pottle's Transportation, LLC Kutztown Terminal scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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

−3.8

2016→2019

Pottle's Transportation, LLC Kutztown Terminal injury rate improved

Pottle's Transportation, LLC Kutztown Terminal's TCR fell 3.8 from 6.0 in 2016 to 2.3 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 24.2 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.0 · 2017=24.2 · 2018=2.9 · 2019=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Kutztown, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.9 · 197% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #157/194
  • PHOTO Penske : 5107-00 Sta…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Penske : 5107-00 Starbucks/Macedonia, OH (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pottle's Transportation, LLC Kutztown Terminal in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pottle's Transportation, LLC Kutztown Terminal averages 8.9 TCR (197% 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

Pottle's Transportation, LLC Kutztown Terminal TCR series: 2016=6 · 2017=24.2 · 2018=2.9 · 2019=2.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Pottle's Transportation, LLC Kutztown Terminal falls in its industry

2,784 General freight trucking, loca establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #157 safest of 194 General freight trucking, loca employers in Pennsylvania.

Pottle's Transportation, LLC Kutztown Terminal (34 employees, TCR 8.9) 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 Pottle's Transportation, LLC Kutztown Terminal
Pottle's Transportation, LLC Kutztown Terminal (34 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Pottle's Transportation, LLC Kutztown Terminal has fewer 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
2019 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2018 2.9 2.9 1 0 0
2017 24.2 20.2 6 0 0
2016 6.0 6.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · PA · Kutztown

2,784 General freight trucking, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 43 employers in Kutztown, PA · 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 Penske : 5107-00 Starbucks/Macedonia, OH 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR SOUTHBOROUGH (MASOU) 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Discover Goodwill of Southern and Western Colorado- Attended Donation Center (All) 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Discover Goodwill of Southern and Western Colorado-Rehab Transportation 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kaolin Mushroom Farms - West Grove Facility 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE George Didden Greenhouse 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kreider Farms - Dairy 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE R.W. Sauder Inc 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR DC 30 - Kutztown, PA 521 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advance Auto Parts DC 30 478 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jetson Specialty Marketing Services Inc 413 FTE
CITY-NEAR WIRE AND CABLE 253 FTE
NAT-TCR RGH Enterprises - Ontario, CA 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Southeast Landfill Office 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Knoxville Plasma - Knoxville, TN 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Jh Routh Packing Co 8.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE GC/ GR Metropolis Phase 2 Residential Tower 3 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE 01- Fayetteville 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Francis-Schulze Company 34 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: 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.