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

Walmart (WC USX WAU)

Auburn, IN · ~109 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Walmart (WC USX WAU) runs at 176% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade D.

Walmart (WC USX WAU): 7.9 TCR = 176% of Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Walmart (WC USX WAU) safety composite

Walmart (WC USX WAU) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Walmart (WC USX WAU): 6.6 → 12.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 12.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.9× in 2021

Walmart (WC USX WAU)'s TCR rose 5.7 from 6.6 in 2016 to 12.3 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Auburn, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.9 · 176% of ind

  • DART 7.2 DART
  • RANK #109/125
  • PHOTO Jackson - MS
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 62 inj
  • SIZE ~109 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jackson - MS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Walmart (WC USX WAU) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Walmart (WC USX WAU) averages 7.9 TCR (176% 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

Walmart (WC USX WAU) TCR series: 2016=6.6 · 2017=9.2 · 2018=11.8 · 2019=3.7 · 2020=4 · 2021=12.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Walmart (WC USX WAU) falls in its industry

3,252 Motor freight carrier, general establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #109 safest of 125 Motor freight carrier, general employers in Indiana.

Walmart (WC USX WAU) (109 employees, TCR 7.9) 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 Walmart (WC USX WAU)
Walmart (WC USX WAU) (109 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Walmart (WC USX WAU) has more employees than the Motor freight carrier, general, long-dis 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
2021 12.3 7.2 12 0 0
2020 4.0 2.6 6 0 0
2019 3.7 3.0 5 0 0
2018 11.8 10.2 15 0 0
2017 9.2 8.6 14 0 0
2016 6.6 5.9 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · IN · Auburn

3,252 Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 50 employers in Auburn, IN · 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 Jackson - MS 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zenith - Riverside 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR MONTGOMERY TRANSPORT 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR AR PAQUETTE & COMPANY INC 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Muncie Svc Ctr 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE 605-NiSource-Fort Wayne IN-Operating HQ 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Construction 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Starcon @ BP Whiting 109 FTE
CITY-NEAR DeKalb Health 641 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 6074 575 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cooper Standard Automotive 503 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6074 502 FTE
NAT-TCR Capitol Programs 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 381697-Cle-Westlake Br 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Docks and Harbors 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Elk Grove Plant 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Compton Roofing Plant 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE SWR100 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kemps Cass Clay Creamery - Fargo 109 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, 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.