Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) · Indiana

RK Transport Inc.

Owensville, IN · ~44 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

RK Transport Inc. runs at 16% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade A.

RK Transport Inc.: 0.7 TCR = 16% of Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

RK Transport Inc. safety composite

RK Transport Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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).

C

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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%).

Rising injury rate

RK Transport Inc.: 0.0 → 2.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.2 TCR · DART/TCR 2.99× in 2024

RK Transport Inc.'s TCR rose 2.2 from 0.0 in 2022 to 2.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Owensville, IN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 16% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #5/125
  • PHOTO Memphis, TN - 4949 T…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Memphis, TN - 4949 Tuggle Road (0.0 TCR gap)

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RK Transport Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows RK Transport Inc. averages 0.7 TCR (16% of the Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

RK Transport Inc. TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=2.2 · BLS 4.5

Where RK Transport Inc. falls in its industry

3,252 Motor freight carrier, general establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 125 Motor freight carrier, general employers in Indiana.

RK Transport Inc. (44 employees, TCR 0.7) 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 RK Transport Inc.
RK Transport Inc. (44 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

RK Transport Inc. has fewer employees than the Motor freight carrier, general, long-dis 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
2024 2.2 2.2 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · IN · Owensville

3,252 Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 8 employers in Owensville, IN · 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 Memphis, TN - 4949 Tuggle Road 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sumner, WA - 540 142nd Ave. 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5KO LLC 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1910 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2307-Whitestown, IN (Monsanto Co.) 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE RushShelby Energy 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE OCM Engineering, LLC 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michels Power Inc-IN-Rolling Prairie 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeside Book Company - Owensville 424 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gibson Generating Station 357 FTE
CITY-NEAR Performance Contractors, Inc. - Duke Energy-Owensville 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR Johnson Commercial Mowing, Inc. 40 FTE
NAT-TCR Premier Construction Services Inc 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Pueblo East 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Meco Constructors, Inc. 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR BrandSafway Services LLC - Westrock - Longview 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE McKay's Market Lincoln City #28 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Newville Pa 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ada Ok 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pinnacle Health Hospitalist Services LLC 44 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.