General freight trucking, local · South Carolina

R & J Trucking Gaston Terminal

Gaston, SC · ~50 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

R & J Trucking Gaston Terminal runs at 40% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General freight trucking, local workplace, earning a grade A.

R & J Trucking Gaston Terminal: 1.8 TCR = 40% of General freight trucking, local BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R & J Trucking Gaston Terminal safety composite

R & J Trucking Gaston Terminal scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

−2.9

2022→2024

R & J Trucking Gaston Terminal injury rate improved

R & J Trucking Gaston Terminal's TCR fell 2.9 from 2.9 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=2.9 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Gaston, SC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.8 · 40% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/63
  • PHOTO Cal Cartage Warehous…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cal Cartage Warehousing Transloading LLC-19710 S. SUSANA RD (0.0 TCR gap)

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R & J Trucking Gaston Terminal in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows R & J Trucking Gaston Terminal averages 1.8 TCR (40% 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

R & J Trucking Gaston Terminal TCR series: 2022=2.9 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where R & J Trucking Gaston Terminal falls in its industry

2,784 General freight trucking, loca establishments

Safer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 63 General freight trucking, loca employers in South Carolina.

R & J Trucking Gaston Terminal (50 employees, TCR 1.8) 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 R & J Trucking Gaston Terminal
R & J Trucking Gaston Terminal (50 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

R & J Trucking Gaston Terminal has more employees than the General freight trucking, local median and a lower 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 2.4 1.2 2 0 0
2022 2.9 1.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · SC · Gaston

2,784 General freight trucking, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 32 employers in Gaston, SC · 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 Cal Cartage Warehousing Transloading LLC-19710 S. SUSANA RD 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Custom Ecology, Inc-Hardeeville 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Exclusive Use Express 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR TDP Transport Charlotte 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Langley Electric Ops 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE BEC - Goose Creek Facility 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Santee Cooper Cross 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cape Fear Utilities, LLC 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR Private Residence Gaston SC 861 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alpek Polyester USA, LLC-Columbia Site 500 FTE
CITY-NEAR DAK Americas, LLC-Columbia Site 495 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stier Supply Co. 286 FTE
NAT-TCR Houston Material Handling 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Rivers Edge Environmental Services,INC 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Starkville 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Kodiak Alaska - CS 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tva 4 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE All Air Mechanical Contractors Inc 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE SSE Lithonia 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Buxton 50 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.

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

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