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

Summit Express, Inc.

Fort Wayne, IN · ~61 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Summit Express, Inc. runs at 162% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade D.

Summit Express, Inc.: 7.3 TCR = 162% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Summit Express, Inc. safety composite

Summit Express, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Summit Express, Inc.: 2.0 → 7.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 19.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.06× in 2024

Summit Express, Inc.'s TCR rose 5.7 from 2.0 in 2019 to 7.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 19.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Fort Wayne, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.3 · 162% of ind

  • DART 7.7 DART
  • RANK #106/125
  • PHOTO SLC LTL
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~61 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SLC LTL (0.0 TCR gap)

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Summit Express, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Summit Express, Inc. averages 7.3 TCR (162% 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

Summit Express, Inc. TCR series: 2019=2 · 2022=0 · 2023=19.4 · 2024=7.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Summit Express, Inc. falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #106 safest of 125 General freight trucking, long employers in Indiana.

Summit Express, Inc. (61 employees, TCR 7.3) 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 Summit Express, Inc.
Summit Express, Inc. (61 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Summit Express, 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 7.7 7.7 1 0 0
2023 19.4 7.8 2 3 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.0 2.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · IN · Fort Wayne

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 634 employers in Fort Wayne, IN · 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 SLC LTL 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Buddy Moore Trucking Tuscaloosa, AL 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR J. P. Jenks 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rush Expediting, Inc 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE ABI Attachments, Inc. 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fort Wayne NE Service Center 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE 358-NiSource-Valparaiso Eastport Center 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE 165-NiSource-Hammond IN-El Disp Cont Ctr 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview Memorial Hospital 6,096 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview North Hospital 4,648 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview Corporate Office 3,312 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shambaugh & Son LP 3,072 FTE
NAT-TCR Big O Smoke House, Inc 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR JR Butler Inc 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Kansas Brick & Tile 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR master grave service, inc. 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Crown Cove 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carlson Roofing Company Inc 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bonner Elementary 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Raley's 117- Elko 61 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, 2019. 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.