General Freight Trucking, Long Distance, Truckload · Texas

Waco CTS

Waco, TX · ~148 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Waco CTS runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General Freight Trucking, Long Distance, Truckload workplace, earning a grade B.

Waco CTS: 2.5 TCR = 55% of General Freight Trucking, Long Distance, Truckload BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Waco CTS safety composite

Waco CTS scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 3%), 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).

D

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 3% 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

Waco CTS: 1.4 → 3.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 4.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.21× in 2024

Waco CTS's TCR rose 1.8 from 1.4 in 2016 to 3.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Waco, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 55% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #146/297
  • PHOTO Heyl Truck Lines, Inc.
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 37 inj
  • SIZE ~148 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Heyl Truck Lines, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Waco CTS in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Waco CTS averages 2.5 TCR (55% of the General Freight Trucking, Long Distance, Truckload BLS benchmark).

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

Waco CTS TCR series: 2016=1.4 · 2017=1.3 · 2018=4.6 · 2019=2.7 · 2020=2 · 2021=2.4 · 2022=1.7 · 2023=3.2 · 2024=3.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Waco CTS falls in its industry

3,252 General Freight Trucking, Long establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #146 safest of 297 General Freight Trucking, Long employers in Texas.

Waco CTS (148 employees, TCR 2.5) 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 Waco CTS
Waco CTS (148 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Waco CTS has more employees than the General Freight Trucking, Long Distance, median and a lower 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
2024 3.2 0.5 6 0 0
2023 3.2 2.1 6 0 0
2022 1.7 1.1 3 0 0
2021 2.4 0.6 4 0 0
2020 2.0 1.3 3 0 0
2019 2.7 0.7 4 0 0
2018 4.6 1.3 7 0 1
2017 1.3 1.3 2 0 0
2016 1.4 1.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · TX · Waco

3,252 General Freight Trucking, Long Distance, Truckload employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 314 employers in Waco, TX · 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 Heyl Truck Lines, Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cedar Rapids Terminal 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR RENO DRY 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ashley Distribution Services, Ltd. - Mississippi 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cal- Maine Foods Red River 148 FTE
STATE-SIZE GNB Global Inc 148 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dallas Underground, LLC 148 FTE
STATE-SIZE 5 Star Civil Construction 148 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Hillcrest 1,512 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - AUS3 1,468 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-TXWAC1 1,407 FTE
CITY-NEAR L3Harris AS IAS Waco 1,400 FTE
NAT-TCR Central Supply - Saltwell Location 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Roman Mosaic and Tile Co-WC 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Barrow Alaska 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hutchinson Technology Inc. - Eau Claire, WI 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rhode Island Zoological Society 148 FTE
NAT-SIZE C021 Salisbury 148 FTE
NAT-SIZE Excel Truck Group Chester 148 FTE
NAT-SIZE NAN 148 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.