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

Quest Liner-Blue Grass

Blue Grass, IA · ~39 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Quest Liner-Blue Grass runs at 26% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade A.

Quest Liner-Blue Grass: 1.2 TCR = 26% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Quest Liner-Blue Grass safety composite

Quest Liner-Blue Grass scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

−3.6

2017→2019

Quest Liner-Blue Grass injury rate improved

Quest Liner-Blue Grass's TCR fell 3.6 from 3.6 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.6 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Blue Grass, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 26% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #16/69
  • PHOTO Fort Worth- Dry Bulk…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fort Worth- Dry Bulk Transport (0.0 TCR gap)

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Quest Liner-Blue Grass in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Quest Liner-Blue Grass averages 1.2 TCR (26% 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

Quest Liner-Blue Grass TCR series: 2017=3.6 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Quest Liner-Blue Grass falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 69 General freight trucking, long employers in Iowa.

Quest Liner-Blue Grass (39 employees, TCR 1.2) 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 Quest Liner-Blue Grass
Quest Liner-Blue Grass (39 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Quest Liner-Blue Grass has fewer 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
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 3.6 3.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · IA · Blue Grass

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 5 employers in Blue Grass, IA · 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 Fort Worth- Dry Bulk Transport 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Renville Terminal 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sibley and Sons Construction Inc. 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR VASCOR transport, Ltd 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE GGDC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience: MRN1: Marion IA R&D 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electric Production 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crystal Lake 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Illowa Investment Inc. 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Selco, Inc. 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Safety Equipment Leasing Co. 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR EIA - BLUE GRASS 8 FTE
NAT-TCR Pse&G Gas Delivery 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Alabama Farmers Cooperative Farm and Home 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR JCFS-APG 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR US - Branch Network : 0896 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Glenvil 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Foodliner-Lafayette 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE iFLY Orlando 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Liberty Homecare Dunn 39 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.