Motor freight carrier, general,long-distance, truckload(TL) · Alabama

Vance DMB

Vance, AL · ~176 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vance DMB runs at 106% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Motor freight carrier, general,long-distance, truckload(TL) workplace, earning a grade C.

Vance DMB: 4.8 TCR = 106% of Motor freight carrier, general,long-distance, truckload(TL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vance DMB safety composite

Vance DMB scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

Vance DMB: 4.7 → 6.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 6.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.84× in 2018

Vance DMB's TCR rose 1.5 from 4.7 in 2016 to 6.2 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Vance, AL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.8 · 106% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #60/90
  • PHOTO BLACKHAWK TRANSPORT …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~176 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BLACKHAWK TRANSPORT SAVE A LOT EDWARDSVILLE IL (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vance DMB in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vance DMB averages 4.8 TCR (106% of the Motor freight carrier, general,long-distance, truckload(TL) BLS benchmark).

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

Vance DMB TCR series: 2016=4.7 · 2017=3.4 · 2018=6.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Vance DMB falls in its industry

3,252 Motor freight carrier, g establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #60 safest of 90 Motor freight carrier, g employers in Alabama.

Vance DMB (176 employees, TCR 4.8) 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 Vance DMB
Vance DMB (176 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Vance DMB has more employees than the Motor freight carrier, general,lon 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
2018 6.2 4.0 14 0 0
2017 3.4 3.0 7 0 0
2016 4.7 3.3 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · AL · Vance

3,252 Motor freight carrier, general,long-distance, truckload(TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 27 employers in Vance, AL · 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 BLACKHAWK TRANSPORT SAVE A LOT EDWARDSVILLE IL 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ORD CST 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR OH-Marion-Rail 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR High Transit LLC. 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gulf Electric Company Inc., of Mobile 176 FTE
STATE-SIZE Honda Lock Selma AL 176 FTE
STATE-SIZE Busche Alabama 176 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lockheed Martin Corporation Courtland Facility (1595) 176 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercedes Benz US. International 6,181 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lear Corporation - Tuscaloosa 765 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brose Tuscaloosa` 751 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ard Logistics, LLC 563 FTE
NAT-TCR KTL 53012 Madison 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR CAPT 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR BRX 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR St Louis Tree Court 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Republic National Distributing Company 8 176 FTE
NAT-SIZE PAM Specialty Hospital of Victoria North 176 FTE
NAT-SIZE Secant Group 176 FTE
NAT-SIZE Garden Terrace Alzaheimers Center of Excellence 176 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.