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

Rush Trucking Louisville Dakkota

Name: Rush Trucking Louisville Dakkota Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Louisville, KY · ~45 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 11.3
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Rush Trucking Louisville Dakkota runs at 251% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade F.

Rush Trucking Louisville Dakkota: 11.3 TCR = 251% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rush Trucking Louisville Dakkota safety composite

Rush Trucking Louisville Dakkota scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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).

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 11.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers
DART rate: F 17.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Rush Trucking Louisville Dakkota: 2.2 → 20.4 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 20.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.55× in 2019

Rush Trucking Louisville Dakkota's TCR rose 18.2 from 2.2 in 2016 to 20.4 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Louisville, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.3 · 251% of ind

DART 17.5 DART
RANK #43/47
PHOTO Volk Transfer, Inc.
BOOK 2y book
INJ 8 inj
SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Volk Transfer, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southern Freig

11.4
This site

11.3
Volk Transfer,

11.3
6836-HAR

11.3
Syracuse

11.3

What this shows Rush Trucking Louisville Dakkota averages 11.3 TCR (251% of the General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

Rush Trucking Louisville Dakkota TCR series: 2016=2.2 · 2019=20.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Rush Trucking Louisville Dakkota falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #43 safest of 47 General freight trucking, long employers in Kentucky.

Rush Trucking Louisville Dakkota (45 employees, TCR 11.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Rush Trucking Louisville Dakkota has fewer employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, median and a higher 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	20.4	17.5	7	0	0
2016	2.2	2.2	1	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · KY · Louisville

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 1,638 employers in Louisville, KY · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Volk Transfer, Inc.	MANKATO, MN	11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	6836-HAR	HARRISBURG, PA	11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Syracuse	LOCKPORT, NY	11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Southern Freight Services, Inc. of Morristown DBA Southern Freight Services, Inc.	MORRISTOWN, TN	11.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Hatchery	MAYFIELD	45 FTE
STATE-SIZE	PMI Field	WINCHESTER	45 FTE
STATE-SIZE	CLAYTON WATKINS CONSTRUCTION CO INC	LEITCHFIELD	45 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Western Kentucky Construction	HOPKINSVILLE	45 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Jefferson County Public Schools	Louisville	18,524 FTE
CITY-NEAR	KYGRA - WORLDPORT	Louisville	11,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WORLDPORT (KYGRA)	Louisville	9,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR	KTKY TRUCK	Louisville	8,757 FTE
NAT-TCR	Lancaster Pa/Central Pa District	Lancaster, PA	11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	B-XII Shrewsbury LLC	Shrewsbury, MA	11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Park Avenue Rehab Center, LLC	Meadville, PA	11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Richco Structres	Sheboygan Falls, WI	11.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Central Cab Company	Waynesburg, PA	45 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Concours Mold Alabama Inc.	Cullman, AL	45 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Jersey Village Pipe	Houston, TX	45 FTE
NAT-SIZE	AMEREN ILLINOIS - Sparta	Sparta, IL	45 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.

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