Motor freight carrier, general, local · Wisconsin

Valley Cartage Company Inc

Hudson, WI · ~107 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Valley Cartage Company Inc runs at 173% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Motor freight carrier, general, local workplace, earning a grade D.

Valley Cartage Company Inc: 7.8 TCR = 173% of Motor freight carrier, general, local BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valley Cartage Company Inc safety composite

Valley Cartage Company Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Valley Cartage Company Inc: 5.5 → 8.3 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 9.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.06× in 2021

Valley Cartage Company Inc's TCR rose 2.7 from 5.5 in 2016 to 8.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 9.1 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Hudson, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.8 · 173% of ind

  • DART 8.3 DART
  • RANK #70/98
  • PHOTO Mondelez Global - St…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 47 inj
  • SIZE ~107 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mondelez Global - Streetsboro DSD (0.0 TCR gap)

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Valley Cartage Company Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Valley Cartage Company Inc averages 7.8 TCR (173% of the Motor freight carrier, general, local BLS benchmark).

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

Valley Cartage Company Inc TCR series: 2016=5.5 · 2017=9.1 · 2018=6.9 · 2019=8.1 · 2020=8.9 · 2021=8.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Valley Cartage Company Inc falls in its industry

2,784 Motor freight carrier, general establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #70 safest of 98 Motor freight carrier, general employers in Wisconsin.

Valley Cartage Company Inc (107 employees, TCR 7.8) 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 Valley Cartage Company Inc
Valley Cartage Company Inc (107 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Valley Cartage Company Inc has more employees than the Motor freight carrier, general, 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
2021 8.3 8.3 8 0 0
2020 8.9 8.9 8 0 0
2019 8.1 5.8 7 0 0
2018 6.9 6.9 8 0 0
2017 9.1 5.5 10 0 0
2016 5.5 4.6 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · WI · Hudson

2,784 Motor freight carrier, general, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 74 employers in Hudson, WI · 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 Mondelez Global - Streetsboro DSD 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR John Brown Trucking Portersville Terminal 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR RIL/Lennox Remotes - 4267 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CAIWD - INGLEWOOD 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Affiliated Construction Services, Inc. 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE P&M Leasing 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE Integrity Grading & Excavating Inc. 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE Parking Lot Maintenance Inc 107 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hudson School District 854 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hudson Hospital 393 FTE
CITY-NEAR Norlake 322 FTE
CITY-NEAR Phillips-Medisize, LLC - St. Croix Meadows 314 FTE
NAT-TCR Nova Infusion 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 07DO/VB/NZ/HG 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Frene Valley of Hermann 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Freight Lines, Inc.- Pico Rivera 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wire Bond - Charlotte 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Coast Distribution Center 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE Touchpints at Farmington 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nissan of Leesburg 107 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.