General freight trucking, local · Ohio

R & J Trucking Lorain Terminal

Lorain, OH · ~63 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

R & J Trucking Lorain Terminal runs at 123% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, local workplace, earning a grade D.

R & J Trucking Lorain Terminal: 5.5 TCR = 123% of General freight trucking, local BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R & J Trucking Lorain Terminal safety composite

R & J Trucking Lorain Terminal scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 40%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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%).

Rising injury rate

R & J Trucking Lorain Terminal: 5.3 → 114.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 114.9 TCR · DART/TCR 20.78× in 2024

R & J Trucking Lorain Terminal's TCR rose 109.6 from 5.3 in 2022 to 114.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 20.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Lorain, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 123% of ind

  • DART 114.9 DART
  • RANK #122/186
  • PHOTO JACKSONVILLE (FLWRD)
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: JACKSONVILLE (FLWRD) (0.0 TCR gap)

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R & J Trucking Lorain Terminal in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows R & J Trucking Lorain Terminal averages 5.5 TCR (123% 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 Lorain Terminal TCR series: 2022=5.3 · 2023=5.7 · 2024=114.9 · BLS 4.5

Where R & J Trucking Lorain Terminal falls in its industry

2,784 General freight trucking, loca establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #122 safest of 186 General freight trucking, loca employers in Ohio.

R & J Trucking Lorain Terminal (63 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 Lorain Terminal
R & J Trucking Lorain Terminal (63 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

R & J Trucking Lorain Terminal has more 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
2024 114.9 114.9 2 0 0
2023 5.7 2.5 7 0 0
2022 5.3 4.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · OH · Lorain

2,784 General freight trucking, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 85 employers in Lorain, OH · 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 JACKSONVILLE (FLWRD) 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR LaGrou Drivers 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Titus - Tolleson 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR M&M Transport - Indy Operations 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cleveland 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nicholson Builders 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buckeye Pipeline Construction, Inc 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE NORTHSTAR ASPHALT, INC. 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health Regional Medical Center 1,578 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Regional Medical Center 1,404 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lorain Family Health Center & Surgery Center 506 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lorain FHC Surgery 412 FTE
NAT-TCR 10218 BelMar 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR TN036 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1830 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Mr Greens Produce - San Antonio 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lighting Retrofit International 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wise Logistics Corp 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Current Controls, Inc. 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE San Jose Field Office 63 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.