Motor freight carrier, general, local · Alabama

Southern Haulers Calera

Calera, AL · ~85 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern Haulers Calera runs at 100% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Motor freight carrier, general, local workplace, earning a grade C.

Southern Haulers Calera: 4.5 TCR = 100% of Motor freight carrier, general, local BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern Haulers Calera safety composite

Southern Haulers Calera scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.8

2016→2021

Southern Haulers Calera injury rate improved

Southern Haulers Calera's TCR fell 0.8 from 4.4 in 2016 to 3.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.4 · 2017=8.9 · 2018=3.4 · 2019=2.6 · 2020=4.1 · 2021=3.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Calera, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.5 · 100% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #41/69
  • PHOTO Perdido Trucking Ser…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 37 inj
  • SIZE ~85 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Perdido Trucking Service (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southern Haulers Calera in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern Haulers Calera averages 4.5 TCR (100% of the Motor freight carrier, general, local BLS benchmark).

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

Southern Haulers Calera TCR series: 2016=4.4 · 2017=8.9 · 2018=3.4 · 2019=2.6 · 2020=4.1 · 2021=3.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Southern Haulers Calera falls in its industry

2,784 Motor freight carrier, general establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #41 safest of 69 Motor freight carrier, general employers in Alabama.

Southern Haulers Calera (85 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Southern Haulers Calera
Southern Haulers Calera (85 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Southern Haulers Calera has more employees than the Motor freight carrier, general, local median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2021 3.6 2.2 5 0 0
2020 4.1 2.7 6 0 0
2019 2.6 2.0 4 0 0
2018 3.4 2.0 5 0 0
2017 8.9 7.4 11 1 0
2016 4.4 2.2 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · AL · Calera

2,784 Motor freight carrier, general, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 30 employers in Calera, AL · 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 Perdido Trucking Service 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Howard Sheppard Bulk 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR So Cal Livehaul Cherry 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bold Transportation 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kelley Foods 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shelby AL Truss 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allied AEC 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE ARCH Tuscaloosa 85 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Service Complex 771 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Service Complex - APC 685 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3271 325 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sysco Central AL 308 FTE
NAT-TCR Machias Office 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Multax LLC 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Grace Bedford 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Portland 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Patterson Mold & Tool 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Virginia Glass Products 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE USA Milledgeville GA 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Metropolis 85 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.