Trucking, general freight, local · Illinois

W. Smith Cartage Company Inc.

Crystal Lake, IL · ~66 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

W. Smith Cartage Company Inc. runs at 44% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Trucking, general freight, local workplace, earning a grade A.

W. Smith Cartage Company Inc.: 2.0 TCR = 44% of Trucking, general freight, local BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

W. Smith Cartage Company Inc. safety composite

W. Smith Cartage Company Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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%).

W. Smith Cartage Company Inc. held a steady TCR band

W. Smith Cartage Company Inc.'s TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.0 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=6.0 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Crystal Lake, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 2.0 · 44% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #28/161
  • PHOTO DED - Grainger
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~66 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DED - Grainger (0.0 TCR gap)

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W. Smith Cartage Company Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows W. Smith Cartage Company Inc. averages 2.0 TCR (44% of the Trucking, general freight, local BLS benchmark).

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

W. Smith Cartage Company Inc. TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=6 · 2019=0 · BLS 4.5

Where W. Smith Cartage Company Inc. falls in its industry

2,784 Trucking, general freight, loc establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 161 Trucking, general freight, loc employers in Illinois.

W. Smith Cartage Company Inc. (66 employees, TCR 2.0) 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 W. Smith Cartage Company Inc.
W. Smith Cartage Company Inc. (66 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

W. Smith Cartage Company Inc. has more employees than the Trucking, general freight, local median and a lower 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
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 6.0 6.0 5 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · IL · Crystal Lake

2,784 Trucking, general freight, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 101 employers in Crystal Lake, IL · 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 DED - Grainger 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR DCC : 5213-00 Wakefern-DCC/Breinigsville, PA 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nor Cal Shuttle 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Savage Services - Roosevelt 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE NG Schaumburg Reporting Center 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Boldt Company - Chicago, IL 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Custom Underground Inc 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main Office 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR McHenry County College 695 FTE
CITY-NEAR Customer Service Crystal Lake Product Center 535 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1413 459 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1413 432 FTE
NAT-TCR Continental Morganton 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lithia Springs Resort 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR ACI-Herzog, Joint Venture 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Westwood Elementary School 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE ADK Electric 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Student Express of the Hudson Valley 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rogue Truck Body LLC 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bloomfield WECO 66 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: 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.