Motor freight carrier, general, local · Minnesota

Valley Cartage Company STC

St Joseph, MN · ~26 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Valley Cartage Company STC runs at 266% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Motor freight carrier, general, local workplace, earning a grade F.

Valley Cartage Company STC: 12.0 TCR = 266% of Motor freight carrier, general, local BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valley Cartage Company STC safety composite

Valley Cartage Company STC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.1

2017→2021

Valley Cartage Company STC injury rate improved

Valley Cartage Company STC's TCR fell 1.1 from 7.3 in 2017 to 6.2 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 26.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.3 · 2018=10.3 · 2019=26.3 · 2020=10.0 · 2021=6.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · St Joseph, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.0 · 266% of ind

  • DART 6.2 DART
  • RANK #46/51
  • PHOTO Ward Trucking LLC-Ne…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ward Trucking LLC-Newburgh (0.0 TCR gap)

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Valley Cartage Company STC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Valley Cartage Company STC averages 12.0 TCR (266% 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 STC TCR series: 2017=7.3 · 2018=10.3 · 2019=26.3 · 2020=10 · 2021=6.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Valley Cartage Company STC falls in its industry

2,784 Motor freight carrier, general establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #46 safest of 51 Motor freight carrier, general employers in Minnesota.

Valley Cartage Company STC (26 employees, TCR 12.0) 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 STC
Valley Cartage Company STC (26 employees, TCR 12.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Valley Cartage Company STC has fewer 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 6.2 6.2 2 0 0
2020 10.0 10.0 3 0 0
2019 26.3 26.3 7 0 0
2018 10.3 10.3 3 0 0
2017 7.3 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · MN · St Joseph

2,784 Motor freight carrier, general, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 3 employers in St Joseph, 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 Ward Trucking LLC-Newburgh 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR HDS-Odessa 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR TX_FlowerMound_2000 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ALDEA - DECATUR 11.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Becker 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Silverstreak Dairy LLC, Silverstreak Dairy 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schwartz Farms Huiras MN 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Golden Egg 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Cloud Branch Office 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cole Papers Inc St Joseph 7 FTE
NAT-TCR 473 Glendale Galleria 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Desapro, Inc. 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR TUL - Ground Ops 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Mt Vernon Nursing & Rehabilitation 12.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE USA Chattanooga 1705 Shepherd Rd 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reunion Lake RV Resort 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kayline Processing 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE VITALIGENT LLC Modesto 357 26 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. 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.