General freight trucking, local · New York

Teal's Express Inc

Watertown, NY · ~111 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Teal's Express Inc runs at 175% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, local workplace, earning a grade D.

Teal's Express Inc: 7.9 TCR = 175% of General freight trucking, local BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Teal's Express Inc safety composite

Teal's Express Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

−0.4

2017→2018

Teal's Express Inc injury rate improved

Teal's Express Inc's TCR fell 0.4 from 8.1 in 2017 to 7.7 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.1 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.1 · 2018=7.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Watertown, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.9 · 175% of ind

  • DART 7.7 DART
  • RANK #61/85
  • PHOTO San Antonio DSD
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~111 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: San Antonio DSD (0.0 TCR gap)

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Teal's Express Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Teal's Express Inc averages 7.9 TCR (175% 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

Teal's Express Inc TCR series: 2017=8.1 · 2018=7.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Teal's Express Inc falls in its industry

2,784 General freight trucking, loca establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #61 safest of 85 General freight trucking, loca employers in New York.

Teal's Express Inc (111 employees, TCR 7.9) 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 Teal's Express Inc
Teal's Express Inc (111 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Teal's Express 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
2018 7.7 7.7 7 0 0
2017 8.1 5.8 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · NY · Watertown

2,784 General freight trucking, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 115 employers in Watertown, NY · 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 San Antonio DSD 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR MTS Coldwater 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Trucking 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR R & J Dayton 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Intergrow East 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midland Farms 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE PHRG LI 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hayner Hoyt Corp 111 FTE
CITY-NEAR Samaritan Medical Center 1,735 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Arc Jefferson-St Lawrence NY 1,264 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAR-FRESHNER Corporation 430 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1871 381 FTE
NAT-TCR AAM 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Atrium Senior Living of Park Ridge 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Myrtle Creek D/C #094 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 4795-PD-PHL-PHILADELPHIA-PD 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE B-X Newton LLC 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE B-X South Windsor LLC 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE B-X Middletown CT LLC 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nurse on Call - Orlando 111 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: 2018, 2017. 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.