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

Purdy Brothers Trucking, LLC

Loudon, TN · ~132 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Purdy Brothers Trucking, LLC runs at 129% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade D.

Purdy Brothers Trucking, LLC: 5.8 TCR = 129% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Purdy Brothers Trucking, LLC safety composite

Purdy Brothers Trucking, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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

−3.3

2017→2019

Purdy Brothers Trucking, LLC injury rate improved

Purdy Brothers Trucking, LLC's TCR fell 3.3 from 8.2 in 2017 to 4.8 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.2 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.2 · 2018=4.5 · 2019=4.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Loudon, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 129% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #112/128
  • PHOTO Norbet Trucking
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~132 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Norbet Trucking (0.0 TCR gap)

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Purdy Brothers Trucking, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Purdy Brothers Trucking, LLC averages 5.8 TCR (129% 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

Purdy Brothers Trucking, LLC TCR series: 2017=8.2 · 2018=4.5 · 2019=4.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Purdy Brothers Trucking, LLC falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 19% 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 #112 safest of 128 General freight trucking, long employers in Tennessee.

Purdy Brothers Trucking, LLC (132 employees, TCR 5.8) 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 Purdy Brothers Trucking, LLC
Purdy Brothers Trucking, LLC (132 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Purdy Brothers Trucking, LLC has more employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, median and a higher 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
2019 4.8 0.5 10 0 0
2018 4.5 1.3 7 0 0
2017 8.2 1.8 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · TN · Loudon

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 · 46 employers in Loudon, 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 Norbet Trucking 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Puerto Rico 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR HDS-Lawrenceville 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR DEN LTL 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Public Utility 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE Consolidated Utility District of Rutherford County 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henkels & McCoy, Tennessee - Chattanooga 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE HVAC, Inc. 132 FTE
CITY-NEAR Malibu Boats, LLC TN Operations 622 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monterey Mushrooms Loudon 550 FTE
CITY-NEAR Morgan Olson 491 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monterey Mushrooms 470 FTE
NAT-TCR SD,CHAMBERLAIN - Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 817 - Boca Raton 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Harter's Fox Valley Disposal 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Redbird 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2967-PA97 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Office 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ancra Group : ANCRA Azusa 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stemco Berea 132 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.