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

Purdy Brothers Trucking Loudon, TN

Loudon, TN · ~128 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Purdy Brothers Trucking Loudon, TN runs at 92% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade C.

Purdy Brothers Trucking Loudon, TN: 4.1 TCR = 92% of Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Purdy Brothers Trucking Loudon, TN safety composite

Purdy Brothers Trucking Loudon, TN scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 39% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 3%), 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).

F

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 3% 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

−2.8

2021→2024

Purdy Brothers Trucking Loudon, TN injury rate improved

Purdy Brothers Trucking Loudon, TN's TCR fell 2.8 from 6.4 in 2021 to 3.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=6.4 · 2022=3.0 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=3.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 4.1 · 92% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #82/128
  • PHOTO Burns Motor Freight,…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~128 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Burns Motor Freight, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Purdy Brothers Trucking Loudon, TN in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Purdy Brothers Trucking Loudon, TN averages 4.1 TCR (92% 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

Purdy Brothers Trucking Loudon, TN TCR series: 2021=6.4 · 2022=3 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=3.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Purdy Brothers Trucking Loudon, TN falls in its industry

3,252 Trucking, general freight, lon establishments

Safer than 34% 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 #82 safest of 128 Trucking, general freight, lon employers in Tennessee.

Purdy Brothers Trucking Loudon, TN (128 employees, TCR 4.1) 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 Loudon, TN
Purdy Brothers Trucking Loudon, TN (128 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Purdy Brothers Trucking Loudon, TN has more employees than the Trucking, general freight, 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
2024 3.6 2.8 9 0 0
2023 3.4 2.5 8 0 1
2022 3.0 3.0 2 0 0
2021 6.4 2.6 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · TN · Loudon

3,252 Trucking, general freight, 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 Burns Motor Freight, Inc. 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Combined Carriers Co. 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shaker Transport 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ingevity Ozark Logistics 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Harlan Electric Main office 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE vonDrehle Memphis 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chattanooga Facility 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plant Maintenance Service Corp. 128 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 Hotel Indigo Gainesville 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Fs-St Vince E Birm 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Felger Hart Inc 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Blaisdell YMCA 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE A. O. Smith Water Treatment (North America), Inc. 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Skilled Nursing Facility 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE 758 - Portland 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE 200 - North Charlotte Nc Rntl 128 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, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.