Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) · Minnesota

Transport Designs, Inc.

Burnsville, MN · ~139 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Transport Designs, Inc. runs at 68% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade B.

Transport Designs, Inc.: 3.1 TCR = 68% of Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Transport Designs, Inc. safety composite

Transport Designs, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 49%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.4

2019→2020

Transport Designs, Inc. injury rate improved

Transport Designs, Inc.'s TCR fell 2.4 from 4.3 in 2019 to 1.9 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.3 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=4.3 · 2020=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Burnsville, MN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 3.1 · 68% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #28/74
  • PHOTO Greif Mid Atlantic D…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~139 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Greif Mid Atlantic Ded Riverville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Transport Designs, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Transport Designs, Inc. averages 3.1 TCR (68% of the Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Transport Designs, Inc. TCR series: 2019=4.3 · 2020=1.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Transport Designs, Inc. falls in its industry

3,252 Trucking, general freight, lon establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 74 Trucking, general freight, lon employers in Minnesota.

Transport Designs, Inc. (139 employees, TCR 3.1) 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 Transport Designs, Inc.
Transport Designs, Inc. (139 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Transport Designs, Inc. has more employees than the Trucking, general freight, 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
2020 1.9 1.9 4 0 0
2019 4.3 2.6 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · MN · Burnsville

3,252 Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 243 employers in Burnsville, MN · 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 Greif Mid Atlantic Ded Riverville 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Charlotte- Dry Bulk Transport 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atlanta 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Menasha Terminal 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Edgewood Hermantown I 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE St Paul Campus 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE Achieve Services Inc 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southview Design 139 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ames Construction 2,318 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rosemount Aerospace Inc (Burnsville MN) 1,894 FTE
CITY-NEAR ROSEMOUNT AEROSPACE INC_6830 1,861 FTE
CITY-NEAR Goodrich - Sensors and Integrated Systems- Burnsville MN 1,673 FTE
NAT-TCR Avalon Precision Casting Company, LLC 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Roses 213 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 35-La Ceiba 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Heresite Manitowoc 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Waterford Public Schools - Waterford High School 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE D32 Washington DC 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store #9 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE PowerBack Piscataway 139 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.