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

Thomas E. Keller Trucking

Defiance, OH · ~311 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Thomas E. Keller Trucking runs at 45% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade A.

Thomas E. Keller Trucking: 2.0 TCR = 45% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Thomas E. Keller Trucking safety composite

Thomas E. Keller Trucking scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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).

D

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Thomas E. Keller Trucking: 2.1 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.65× in 2024

Thomas E. Keller Trucking's TCR rose 1.2 from 2.1 in 2016 to 3.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Defiance, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 2.0 · 45% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #57/186
  • PHOTO eleanor
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~311 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: eleanor (0.0 TCR gap)

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Thomas E. Keller Trucking in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Thomas E. Keller Trucking averages 2.0 TCR (45% 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

Thomas E. Keller Trucking TCR series: 2016=2.1 · 2020=1.2 · 2021=3.2 · 2022=0.9 · 2023=1.4 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Thomas E. Keller Trucking falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #57 safest of 186 General freight trucking, long employers in Ohio.

Thomas E. Keller Trucking (311 employees, TCR 2.0) 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 Thomas E. Keller Trucking
Thomas E. Keller Trucking (311 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Thomas E. Keller Trucking has more 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 3.3 3.3 15 0 0
2023 1.4 1.1 6 0 0
2022 0.9 0.9 3 0 0
2021 3.2 2.2 10 0 0
2020 1.2 0.9 4 0 0
2016 2.1 1.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · OH · Defiance

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 65 employers in Defiance, OH · 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 eleanor 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Van Wyk, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR port everglades terminal 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Clair- Dry Bulk Transport 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fannie May Confections Brands 311 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2605 311 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1441 311 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3860 311 FTE
CITY-NEAR Campbell Soup Supply Company, LLC 1,425 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Motors LLC. 734 FTE
CITY-NEAR Defiance 8 437 FTE
CITY-NEAR Defiance Regional Medical Center 363 FTE
NAT-TCR G&G Berry Farms 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Mid-South Lumber Co. of Northwest Florida, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Burlington Richmond Plant 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Haemonetics - Covina 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2365 - Queen Creek 311 FTE
NAT-SIZE Earle M. Jorgensen Company 311 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elevate Windows and Doors 311 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1137 Branchton Rd Boyers PA 311 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, 2021, 2020, 2016. 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.