Trucking, general freight, local · California

The Morning Star Trucking Company

Los Banos, CA · ~299 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

The Morning Star Trucking Company runs at 154% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Trucking, general freight, local workplace, earning a grade D.

The Morning Star Trucking Company: 6.9 TCR = 154% of Trucking, general freight, local BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Morning Star Trucking Company safety composite

The Morning Star Trucking Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 41% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

−5.2

2022→2024

The Morning Star Trucking Company injury rate improved

The Morning Star Trucking Company's TCR fell 5.2 from 9.4 in 2022 to 4.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=9.4 · 2023=7.2 · 2024=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Los Banos, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.9 · 154% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #181/264
  • PHOTO PITTSBURGH (PAMDW)
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 72 inj
  • SIZE ~299 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PITTSBURGH (PAMDW) (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Morning Star Trucking Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Morning Star Trucking Company averages 6.9 TCR (154% of the Trucking, general freight, local BLS benchmark).

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

The Morning Star Trucking Company TCR series: 2022=9.4 · 2023=7.2 · 2024=4.2 · BLS 4.5

Where The Morning Star Trucking Company falls in its industry

2,784 Trucking, general freight, loc establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #181 safest of 264 Trucking, general freight, loc employers in California.

The Morning Star Trucking Company (299 employees, TCR 6.9) 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 The Morning Star Trucking Company
The Morning Star Trucking Company (299 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

The Morning Star Trucking Company has more employees than the Trucking, general freight, 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
2024 4.2 3.9 14 0 0
2023 7.2 7.2 27 0 0
2022 9.4 9.1 31 0 1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · CA · Los Banos

2,784 Trucking, general freight, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 52 employers in Los Banos, CA · 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 PITTSBURGH (PAMDW) 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR C To C Logistics LLC 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR SIDS-Suwanee Suffolk/Sussex Del/#51000 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR ORLANDO (FLOCO) 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Peri & Sons Farms of California, LLC 299 FTE
STATE-SIZE Terra Bella 299 FTE
STATE-SIZE Colorado Farms LLC. 299 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henry Leal 299 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 316 779 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Liberty Packing Company 590 FTE
CITY-NEAR Liberty Packing Company 496 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sutter Valley Hospitals (30738) 374 FTE
NAT-TCR Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network - Corporate Services 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Automatic Valve Industrial, LLC 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Oasthouse Kitchen + Bar 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR HECO, Inc 6.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cambria Sales and Marketing 299 FTE
NAT-SIZE Woodhaven Furniture Industries - Cairo 299 FTE
NAT-SIZE Acutec Precision Aerospace, Inc. Meadville 1 299 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Red Cross - 180 Rustcraft Rd 299 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.