Trucking, specialized freight (except used goods), local · Texas

Southern Star Transport, Ltd.

Name: Southern Star Transport, Ltd. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Elsa, TX · ~59 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.5
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Southern Star Transport, Ltd. runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Trucking, specialized freight (except used goods), local workplace, earning a grade A.

Southern Star Transport, Ltd.: 1.5 TCR = 32% of Trucking, specialized freight (except used goods), local BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern Star Transport, Ltd. safety composite

Southern Star Transport, Ltd. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers
DART rate: C 1.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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

Southern Star Transport, Ltd.: 0.0 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 2.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2020

Southern Star Transport, Ltd.'s TCR rose 2.9 from 0.0 in 2019 to 2.9 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484220 · Elsa, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 32% of ind

DART 1.5 DART
RANK #32/118
PHOTO Mississippi Lime Com…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mississippi Lime Company Vicksburg (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Southern Star Transport, Ltd. averages 1.5 TCR (32% of the Trucking, specialized freight (except used goods), local BLS benchmark).

Southern Star Transport, Ltd. TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=2.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Southern Star Transport, Ltd. falls in its industry

1,130 Trucking, specialized freight establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 118 Trucking, specialized freight employers in Texas.

Southern Star Transport, Ltd. (59 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Southern Star Transport, Ltd. has more employees than the Trucking, specialized freight (except us median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2020	2.9	1.5	2	0	0
2019	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484220 · TX · Elsa

1,130 Trucking, specialized freight (except used goods), local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 6 employers in Elsa, TX · 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	Mississippi Lime Company Vicksburg	VICKSBURG, MS	1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Todd's Enterprises LLC	PERRYVILLE, MD	1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Economy Transportation and Logistics	HOUSTON, TX	1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Salisbury Trucking, Inc.	TUSTIN, MI	1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Omega Protein INC.	HOUSTON	59 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Corteva Plainview SPSC	PLAINVIEW	59 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Beckville Mine	BECKVILLE	59 FTE
STATE-SIZE	NRG - T.H. Wharton	HOUSTON	59 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Foremost Paving, Inc.	Elsa	413 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 5808	Elsa	248 FTE
CITY-NEAR	5808	Elsa	230 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Elsa	Elsa	36 FTE
NAT-TCR	Spokane Main 621	Spokane, WA	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	ANS:ANCOV - ANCOV-Covington, GA	Social Circle, GA	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	REPACORP	Phoenix, AZ	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	WESCO Jacksonville Fl 7676	Jacksonville, FL	1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Hollywood Biotest Plasma Center	Hollywood, FL	59 FTE
NAT-SIZE	ANS:ANMAR - ANMAR - Marietta, GA	Marietta, GA	59 FTE
NAT-SIZE	CCG:CG037 - CG037- Tucker,GA	Tucker, GA	59 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Springfield-11	Springfield, MO	59 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: 2020, 2019. 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.