General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) · Texas

SMT Lines - DAL

Dallas, TX · ~82 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SMT Lines - DAL runs at 147% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) workplace, earning a grade D.

SMT Lines - DAL: 6.6 TCR = 147% of General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SMT Lines - DAL safety composite

SMT Lines - DAL scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

SMT Lines - DAL: 2.4 → 10.9 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 10.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.65× in 2019

SMT Lines - DAL's TCR rose 8.6 from 2.4 in 2016 to 10.9 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Dallas, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.6 · 147% of ind

  • DART 10.9 DART
  • RANK #179/237
  • PHOTO Tri Cities 233
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~82 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tri Cities 233 (0.0 TCR gap)

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SMT Lines - DAL in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SMT Lines - DAL averages 6.6 TCR (147% of the General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS benchmark).

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

SMT Lines - DAL TCR series: 2016=2.4 · 2018=6.5 · 2019=10.9 · BLS 4.5

Where SMT Lines - DAL falls in its industry

3,020 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #179 safest of 237 General freight trucking, long employers in Texas.

SMT Lines - DAL (82 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate SMT Lines - DAL
SMT Lines - DAL (82 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

SMT Lines - DAL has more employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 10.9 10.9 10 0 0
2018 6.5 3.3 6 0 0
2016 2.4 2.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · TX · Dallas

3,020 General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 2,187 employers in Dallas, TX · 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 Tri Cities 233 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR CENTRAL FREIGHTLINES-CHATTANOOGA 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Richmond 001 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR POC 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE MORTELLARO'S NURSERY LTD SCHERTZ, TX 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midland 11700 Onyx Dr, Midland, TX 79706 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maverick Well Pluggers 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rocker A Well Service, Inc. 82 FTE
CITY-NEAR AECOM DCS (US Operations) 15,100 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rexel USA, Inc 8,356 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1 CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER OF DALLAS 6,147 FTE
CITY-NEAR HDQ - Headquarters 5,764 FTE
NAT-TCR Facility Builders & Erectors 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR M.S. Iron Works, Inc. 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR CLS 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Tmx2790 - Schendel Services - Wichita 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE International Paper St. Louis Container 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hobbs Bonded Fibers NA, LLC. 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Keystone RV Plant 33 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Darlington 82 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, 2018, 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.