Motor freight carrier, general, local · Minnesota

Valley Cartage MKT

Mankato, MN · ~30 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Valley Cartage MKT runs at 134% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Motor freight carrier, general, local workplace, earning a grade D.

Valley Cartage MKT: 6.0 TCR = 134% of Motor freight carrier, general, local BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valley Cartage MKT safety composite

Valley Cartage MKT 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.14 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 MKT: 3.9 → 8.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 8.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.35× in 2021

Valley Cartage MKT's TCR rose 4.2 from 3.9 in 2020 to 8.1 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Mankato, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 134% of ind

  • DART 8.1 DART
  • RANK #33/51
  • PHOTO KTL
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: KTL (0.0 TCR gap)

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Valley Cartage MKT in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Valley Cartage MKT averages 6.0 TCR (134% 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 MKT TCR series: 2020=3.9 · 2021=8.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Valley Cartage MKT falls in its industry

2,784 Motor freight carrier, general establishments

Safer than 35% 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 #33 safest of 51 Motor freight carrier, general employers in Minnesota.

Valley Cartage MKT (30 employees, TCR 6.0) 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 MKT
Valley Cartage MKT (30 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Valley Cartage MKT 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 8.1 8.1 2 0 0
2020 3.9 3.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · MN · Mankato

2,784 Motor freight carrier, general, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 214 employers in Mankato, 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 KTL 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trantham Services Inc - Chattanooga, TN 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kemco Trucking, Inc 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Penske : 4383-00 GM-CCA/Flint, MI 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nelson Nursery 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northern Plains Dairy 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Dairy, Westland Dairy 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pipestone Grow Finish 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Minnesota State University, Mankato 2,729 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Clinic Health System-Mankato 2,468 FTE
CITY-NEAR MRCI - Premier Drive 1,641 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mankato Area Public Schools 1,200 FTE
NAT-TCR ViaQuest Residential Services - Akron 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 6795-86110B0199 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Chiquita Port Huaneme 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CSP 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Coyote Ridge Residential 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yates Industries South 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE DeLong's, Inc. - Sedalia 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE 900 900 N Michigan 30 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. 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.