General freight trucking, local · California

The Morning Star Trucking Company - LB

Los Banos, CA · ~216 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Morning Star Trucking Company - LB runs at 210% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, local workplace, earning a grade F.

The Morning Star Trucking Company - LB: 9.4 TCR = 210% of General freight trucking, local BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Morning Star Trucking Company - LB safety composite

The Morning Star Trucking Company - LB scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

−0.5

2017→2020

The Morning Star Trucking Company - LB injury rate improved

The Morning Star Trucking Company - LB's TCR fell 0.5 from 9.4 in 2017 to 8.9 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 10.0 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=9.4 · 2019=10.0 · 2020=8.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 9.4 · 210% of ind

  • DART 8.1 DART
  • RANK #228/264
  • PHOTO PASTO - POTTSTOWN
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 69 inj
  • SIZE ~216 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PASTO - POTTSTOWN (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Morning Star Trucking Company - LB 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 - LB averages 9.4 TCR (210% 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

The Morning Star Trucking Company - LB TCR series: 2017=9.4 · 2019=10 · 2020=8.9 · BLS 4.5

Where The Morning Star Trucking Company - LB falls in its industry

2,784 General freight trucking, loca establishments

Safer than 15% 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 #228 safest of 264 General freight trucking, loca employers in California.

The Morning Star Trucking Company - LB (216 employees, TCR 9.4) 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 - LB
The Morning Star Trucking Company - LB (216 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

The Morning Star Trucking Company - LB 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
2020 8.9 8.1 22 0 0
2019 10.0 8.9 26 0 0
2017 9.4 6.0 21 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · CA · Los Banos

2,784 General freight trucking, 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 PASTO - POTTSTOWN 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR NORFOLK SOUTHERN (OHEMN) 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Linden Bulk Transport, LLC 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR DCC : 5545-00 GST-DCC/Sealy, TX 9.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE GONZALEZ BROTHERS FARM SERVICES, INC 216 FTE
STATE-SIZE RCP-HURON 216 FTE
STATE-SIZE Freedom Forever, LLC Temecula 216 FTE
STATE-SIZE Matrix HG, Inc. 216 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 1969-FSR1 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Amzl : Dlr1 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 122 River St 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Catawissa Wood and Components, Inc 9.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Chesapeake Health and Rehabilitation Center 216 FTE
NAT-SIZE JE Berkowitz 216 FTE
NAT-SIZE 860 Bronx, Ny 216 FTE
NAT-SIZE Colt Builders Corp. 216 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: 2020, 2019, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.