General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Truckload · Georgia

Tidewater Transit-Dalton

Dalton, GA · ~16 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tidewater Transit-Dalton runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Truckload workplace, earning a grade D.

Tidewater Transit-Dalton: 5.8 TCR = 130% of General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Truckload BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tidewater Transit-Dalton safety composite

Tidewater Transit-Dalton scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

Tidewater Transit-Dalton: 7.8 → 8.2 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 8.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.41× in 2022

Tidewater Transit-Dalton's TCR rose 0.5 from 7.8 in 2018 to 8.2 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Dalton, GA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 130% of ind

  • DART 8.2 DART
  • RANK #143/166
  • PHOTO PREMIER TRANSPORTATI…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~16 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PREMIER TRANSPORTATION & WAREHOUSING INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tidewater Transit-Dalton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tidewater Transit-Dalton averages 5.8 TCR (130% of the General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Truckload BLS benchmark).

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

Tidewater Transit-Dalton TCR series: 2018=7.8 · 2020=0 · 2021=7.4 · 2022=8.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Tidewater Transit-Dalton falls in its industry

3,252 General Freight Trucking, Long establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #143 safest of 166 General Freight Trucking, Long employers in Georgia.

Tidewater Transit-Dalton (16 employees, TCR 5.8) 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 Tidewater Transit-Dalton
Tidewater Transit-Dalton (16 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Tidewater Transit-Dalton has fewer employees than the General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, median and a higher 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
2022 8.2 8.2 1 0 0
2021 7.4 7.4 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 7.8 7.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · GA · Dalton

3,252 General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Truckload employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 292 employers in Dalton, GA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR PREMIER TRANSPORTATION & WAREHOUSING INC 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR TCW, INC MEMPHIS 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Springfield, OH (WC USX MED) 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dart X Eagan MN 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Decatur Gin Company, Inc 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE Birdsong Fudge Buying Point 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE Metro Green Recycling Two 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.R. Horton Realty of Georgia - Atlanta East - AIK Realty 16 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hamilton Medical Center 1,606 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plant 97 1,244 FTE
CITY-NEAR SD 1,224 FTE
CITY-NEAR USA Dalton GA Antioch 1,077 FTE
NAT-TCR Clarion Boards LLC 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Heritage Sleep Products 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Food City Store #667 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Garden 5.8 TCR

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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.