General freight trucking, local · Illinois

Ward Trucking LLC-Chicago

Chicago Ridge, IL · ~58 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ward Trucking LLC-Chicago runs at 122% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, local workplace, earning a grade D.

Ward Trucking LLC-Chicago: 5.5 TCR = 122% of General freight trucking, local BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ward Trucking LLC-Chicago safety composite

Ward Trucking LLC-Chicago scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

Ward Trucking LLC-Chicago: 3.5 → 8.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.9× in 2024

Ward Trucking LLC-Chicago's TCR rose 4.7 from 3.5 in 2022 to 8.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Chicago Ridge, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 122% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK #94/161
  • PHOTO Pitt Ohio - West Mid…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pitt Ohio - West Middlesex (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ward Trucking LLC-Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ward Trucking LLC-Chicago averages 5.5 TCR (122% of the General freight trucking, local BLS benchmark).

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

Ward Trucking LLC-Chicago TCR series: 2022=3.5 · 2023=4.7 · 2024=8.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Ward Trucking LLC-Chicago falls in its industry

2,784 General freight trucking, loca establishments

Safer than 41% 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 #94 safest of 161 General freight trucking, loca employers in Illinois.

Ward Trucking LLC-Chicago (58 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 Ward Trucking LLC-Chicago
Ward Trucking LLC-Chicago (58 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Ward Trucking LLC-Chicago has more employees than the General freight trucking, 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
2024 8.2 4.9 5 0 0
2023 4.7 3.2 3 0 0
2022 3.5 3.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · IL · Chicago Ridge

2,784 General freight trucking, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 26 employers in Chicago Ridge, 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 Pitt Ohio - West Middlesex 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR D1230 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fidelitone - Raleigh 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CABLO - RIALTO 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - IL Relay Ops 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - La Salle 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Menold Construction and Restoration 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE ALPA Construction, Inc. 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR C&K Trucking, LLC 263 FTE
CITY-NEAR 62 - Chicago Ridge 212 FTE
CITY-NEAR LHCC of Chicago Ridge 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR Avantara Chicago Ridge 133 FTE
NAT-TCR United Professional Caulking & Restoration, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Calumet 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR NYSEG Binghamton Service Center 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Garick Paygro 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Western Specialty Contractors - Fort Lauderdale 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Western Specialty Contractors - Ridgefield 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Expert Delivery LLC 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE First Call Hospice 58 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. 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.