Dump trucking (e.g., gravel, sand, top soil) · Michigan

Top Grade Transport, LLC

Hamilton, MI · ~18 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
20.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Top Grade Transport, LLC runs at 459% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Dump trucking (e.g., gravel, sand, top soil) workplace, earning a grade F.

Top Grade Transport, LLC: 20.7 TCR = 459% of Dump trucking (e.g., gravel, sand, top soil) BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Top Grade Transport, LLC safety composite

Top Grade Transport, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 0%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 20.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 32 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% 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

Top Grade Transport, LLC: 6.9 → 40.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 40.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.55× in 2024

Top Grade Transport, LLC's TCR rose 33.1 from 6.9 in 2021 to 40.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484220 · Hamilton, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 20.7 · 459% of ind

  • DART 32.0 DART
  • RANK #22/22
  • PHOTO DID2
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DID2 (0.1 TCR gap)

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Top Grade Transport, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Top Grade Transport, LLC averages 20.7 TCR (459% of the Dump trucking (e.g., gravel, sand, top soil) BLS benchmark).

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

Top Grade Transport, LLC TCR series: 2021=6.9 · 2022=18.7 · 2023=17.1 · 2024=40 · BLS 4.5

Where Top Grade Transport, LLC falls in its industry

1,130 Dump trucking (e.g., gravel, s establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 22 Dump trucking (e.g., gravel, s employers in Michigan.

Top Grade Transport, LLC (18 employees, TCR 20.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Top Grade Transport, LLC
Top Grade Transport, LLC (18 employees, TCR 20.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Top Grade Transport, LLC has fewer employees than the Dump trucking (e.g., gravel, sand, top s median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 40.0 32.0 5 0 0
2023 17.1 17.1 4 0 0
2022 18.7 6.2 3 0 0
2021 6.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484220 · MI · Hamilton

1,130 Dump trucking (e.g., gravel, sand, top soil) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 14 employers in Hamilton, MI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR DID2 20.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thigpen Trucking,INC 20.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Radd Logistics Inc. 20.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wilkesboro Live Haul 20.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE White Cloud 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Roseville Water 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE PENCON, INC. d/b/a Peninsula Construction & Design, Inc. 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE E.F. Wilkinson & Sons, Inc. 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dykhuis Farms 162 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2794_5337 115 FTE
CITY-NEAR Great Lakes Superior Walls 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brink Farms Inc. 73 FTE
NAT-TCR 01 Mta Ltl 20.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Metro Health Foundation of MA, Inc. D/B/A The Bostonian Nursing Care & Rehabilitation Center 20.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 381768-Col-Livingston Sta 20.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0024 0077 20.7 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.