General freight trucking, local · Illinois

Sunset Cartage, Inc.

Crystal Lake, IL · ~56 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sunset Cartage, Inc. runs at 204% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, local workplace, earning a grade F.

Sunset Cartage, Inc.: 9.2 TCR = 204% of General freight trucking, local BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sunset Cartage, Inc. safety composite

Sunset Cartage, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Sunset Cartage, Inc.: 7.9 → 10.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 10.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2022

Sunset Cartage, Inc.'s TCR rose 2.5 from 7.9 in 2021 to 10.4 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Crystal Lake, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.2 · 204% of ind

  • DART 9.1 DART
  • RANK #138/161
  • PHOTO Rock On Enterprises …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rock On Enterprises Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sunset Cartage, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sunset Cartage, Inc. averages 9.2 TCR (204% of the General freight trucking, local BLS benchmark).

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

Sunset Cartage, Inc. TCR series: 2021=7.9 · 2022=10.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Sunset Cartage, Inc. falls in its industry

2,784 General freight trucking, loca establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #138 safest of 161 General freight trucking, loca employers in Illinois.

Sunset Cartage, Inc. (56 employees, TCR 9.2) 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 Sunset Cartage, Inc.
Sunset Cartage, Inc. (56 employees, TCR 9.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Sunset Cartage, Inc. has more employees than the General freight trucking, local median and a higher 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
2022 10.4 9.1 8 0 0
2021 7.9 7.9 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · IL · Crystal Lake

2,784 General freight trucking, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 101 employers in Crystal Lake, IL · 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 Rock On Enterprises Inc 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR NYNAN - NANUET 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR KSSAI - AAP SALINA 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northern Dry Bulk 9.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bulk Power Operations 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Norris Electric Cooperative 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE 73G - Northern S - IL Gas Ops 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schaumburg Reporting Center 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR McHenry County College 695 FTE
CITY-NEAR Customer Service Crystal Lake Product Center 535 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1413 459 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1413 432 FTE
NAT-TCR buybuy Baby Fort Worth 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR buybuy Baby Cherry Hill 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 6458-ZSTP 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR PHS - Woodland Hill 9.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Seal Master Corp. 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE MEC, Inc. 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cottonwood 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Swire Coca-Cola of Kingman 56 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: 2022, 2021. 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.