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

Smith Systems Transportation, Inc.

Gering, NE · ~48 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Smith Systems Transportation, Inc. runs at 223% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade F.

Smith Systems Transportation, Inc.: 10.0 TCR = 223% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smith Systems Transportation, Inc. safety composite

Smith Systems Transportation, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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).

F

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Smith Systems Transportation, Inc.: 10.4 → 13.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 13.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.74× in 2018

Smith Systems Transportation, Inc.'s TCR rose 2.5 from 10.4 in 2016 to 13.0 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Gering, NE ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.0 · 223% of ind

  • DART 7.4 DART
  • RANK #42/48
  • PHOTO Home Terminal
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Home Terminal (0.0 TCR gap)

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Smith Systems Transportation, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Smith Systems Transportation, Inc. averages 10.0 TCR (223% 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

Smith Systems Transportation, Inc. TCR series: 2016=10.4 · 2017=6.7 · 2018=13 · BLS 4.5

Where Smith Systems Transportation, Inc. falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #42 safest of 48 General freight trucking, long employers in Nebraska.

Smith Systems Transportation, Inc. (48 employees, TCR 10.0) 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 Smith Systems Transportation, Inc.
Smith Systems Transportation, Inc. (48 employees, TCR 10.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Smith Systems Transportation, Inc. 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
2018 13.0 7.4 7 0 0
2017 6.7 6.7 5 0 0
2016 10.4 10.4 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · NE · Gering

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 12 employers in Gering, NE · 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 Home Terminal 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR FAS BNA 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ryder Location 4840 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR FAF CHS 9.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rex Ranch 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE LDC FARROWING 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE ON FARROWING 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred Int., Inc 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Heritage Estates 153 FTE
CITY-NEAR Paul Reed Construction & Supply, Inc. 104 FTE
CITY-NEAR CS Precision Manufacturing 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR B&C Steel Corporation 54 FTE
NAT-TCR Main Office 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Vecellio & Grogan-Project #172 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Marukai Gardena 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Garden City Hospital 10.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dubuque County Secondary Roads Department 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate office 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE CNS Emeryville Clinic & Residential 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Republic National Distributing Company 16 48 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.