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

The Forward Group, Inc.

Chattanooga, Tn, TN · ~57 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
0.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Forward Group, Inc. runs at 0% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade C.

The Forward Group, Inc.: 0.0 TCR = 0% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Forward Group, Inc. safety composite

The Forward Group, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% 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).

B

83/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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%).

The Forward Group, Inc. held a steady TCR band

The Forward Group, Inc.'s TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 0.0 TCR.

2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Chattanooga, Tn, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 0.0 · 0% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #0/128
  • PHOTO Quality Logistics Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Quality Logistics Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Forward Group, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Forward Group, Inc. averages 0.0 TCR (0% 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

The Forward Group, Inc. TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where The Forward Group, Inc. falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 100% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #0 safest of 128 General freight trucking, long employers in Tennessee.

The Forward Group, Inc. (57 employees, TCR 0.0) 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 The Forward Group, Inc.
The Forward Group, Inc. (57 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

The Forward Group, Inc. has fewer employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, median and a lower 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · TN · Chattanooga, Tn

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 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 Quality Logistics Inc 0.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 300000170856345 - WI-Green Bay-RBC 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lowell, AR - JB Hunt Corporate A Marketing 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR EVANS DELIVERY COMPANY INC 0.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Middle TN Electric Membership Corporation (Downtown) 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Christman Company - Knoxville, TN 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hawkins Asphalt Paving Main Office 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Concrete Polishing Technologies, Inc. 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novolex 335 FTE
NAT-TCR 2000 St James Place 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Pegasus Painting & Waterproofing LLC. 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Bilow Farms, LLC 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lake Shore Electric Corp 0.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cedar Mountain Commons 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Path Light Pro, LLC 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Garman Builders, Inc. 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Accurate Brazing Corporation 57 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. 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.