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

Rush Trucking Buffalo Wv

Buffalo, WV · ~71 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Rush Trucking Buffalo Wv runs at 59% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade B.

Rush Trucking Buffalo Wv: 2.6 TCR = 59% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rush Trucking Buffalo Wv safety composite

Rush Trucking Buffalo Wv scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% 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).

D

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Rush Trucking Buffalo Wv: 1.6 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 3.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.94× in 2019

Rush Trucking Buffalo Wv's TCR rose 2.1 from 1.6 in 2016 to 3.7 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Buffalo, WV AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 59% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #7/12
  • PHOTO Ashley Distribution …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ashley Distribution Services, Ltd. - Wisconsin (0.0 TCR gap)

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Rush Trucking Buffalo Wv in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rush Trucking Buffalo Wv averages 2.6 TCR (59% 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

Rush Trucking Buffalo Wv TCR series: 2016=1.6 · 2019=3.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Rush Trucking Buffalo Wv falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to West Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 12 General freight trucking, long employers in West Virginia.

Rush Trucking Buffalo Wv (71 employees, TCR 2.6) 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 Rush Trucking Buffalo Wv
Rush Trucking Buffalo Wv (71 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Rush Trucking Buffalo Wv has more 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 3.7 2.5 2 1 1
2016 1.6 1.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · WV · Buffalo

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,269 rated employers in West Virginia with headcount on file · 9 employers in Buffalo, WV · 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 Ashley Distribution Services, Ltd. - Wisconsin 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lincoln Terminal-DOT 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR JIM BENDER GA 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6872 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hope Gas-Jane Lew Operational Hub 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE SDR Plastics 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mouldagraph Corporation - Nitro, WV 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Valtronics Solutions Inc. 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR Toyota Motor Mfg West Virginia, Inc 2,115 FTE
CITY-NEAR ResourceMFG/Toyota Manufacturing 172 FTE
CITY-NEAR TMMWV 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR West Virginia - Non Metals 43 FTE
NAT-TCR JSC Terminal LLC, dba Midwest Terminal 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Botsford Hospital 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Ballinger Healthcare and Rehab Center 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 168 - Peru 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Intl Marble Industries Inc 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE SSM St. Josephs Rehab 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Regional Cancer Care Institute 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE 482 ABC Supply Co., Inc 71 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, 2016. 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.