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

Smith Trucking Inc

Worthington, MN · ~214 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
2
Fatalities
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The verdict

Smith Trucking Inc runs at 106% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade C.

Smith Trucking Inc: 4.8 TCR = 106% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smith Trucking Inc safety composite

Smith Trucking Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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).

F

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 2

Safer than 1% 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 Trucking Inc: 3.1 → 8.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6077.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.26× in 2024

Smith Trucking Inc's TCR rose 4.9 from 3.1 in 2018 to 8.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6077.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Worthington, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.8 · 106% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #46/74
  • PHOTO Howard Transportation
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 55 inj
  • SIZE ~214 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Howard Transportation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Smith Trucking Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Smith Trucking Inc averages 4.8 TCR (106% 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 Trucking Inc TCR series: 2018=3.1 · 2019=3.9 · 2020=3.3 · 2021=5.3 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=6077.4 · 2024=8.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Smith Trucking Inc falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #46 safest of 74 General freight trucking, long employers in Minnesota.

Smith Trucking Inc (214 employees, TCR 4.8) 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 Trucking Inc
Smith Trucking Inc (214 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Smith Trucking Inc has more 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
2024 8.1 1.3 11 2 2
2023 6077.4 3867.4 11 0 0
2022 4.8 1.8 8 0 0
2021 5.3 2.4 9 0 0
2020 3.3 1.6 6 0 0
2019 3.9 2.0 6 0 0
2018 3.1 2.5 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · MN · Worthington

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 59 employers in Worthington, MN · 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 Howard Transportation 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6223-702 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR JR Simplot Company, Food-Trans-Pasco 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR BCP Transportation, Inc. 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Distinctive Floral Company 214 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lakeside Foods Owatonna 214 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alumacraft - MN 214 FTE
STATE-SIZE Medtronic ILS 214 FTE
CITY-NEAR SWIFT PORK COMPANY - WORTHINGTON 2,136 FTE
CITY-NEAR SWIFT PORK COMPANY WORTHINGTON 2,113 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bedford Industries 416 FTE
CITY-NEAR MN,WORTHINGTON - Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 272 FTE
NAT-TCR LMI Packaging Solutions 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Park Place Sign Systems, Inc 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Walterscheid Inc. Woodridge 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 8014 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 60 - Dickson 214 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Ingleside Hotel 214 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nelson Irrigation Corporation 214 FTE
NAT-SIZE Modern Forge Indiana 214 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.