Motor freight carrier, general, local · Ohio

Ward Trucking LLC-Cincinnati

Cincinnati, OH · ~40 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ward Trucking LLC-Cincinnati runs at 240% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Motor freight carrier, general, local workplace, earning a grade F.

Ward Trucking LLC-Cincinnati: 10.8 TCR = 240% of Motor freight carrier, general, local BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ward Trucking LLC-Cincinnati safety composite

Ward Trucking LLC-Cincinnati scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.9

2018→2024

Ward Trucking LLC-Cincinnati injury rate improved

Ward Trucking LLC-Cincinnati's TCR fell 1.9 from 13.2 in 2018 to 11.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 16.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=13.2 · 2019=11.2 · 2020=6.7 · 2021=3.1 · 2022=13.9 · 2023=16.1 · 2024=11.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Cincinnati, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.8 · 240% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #173/186
  • PHOTO 4829-11225
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4829-11225 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ward Trucking LLC-Cincinnati in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ward Trucking LLC-Cincinnati averages 10.8 TCR (240% of the Motor freight carrier, general, local BLS benchmark).

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

Ward Trucking LLC-Cincinnati TCR series: 2018=13.2 · 2019=11.2 · 2020=6.7 · 2021=3.1 · 2022=13.9 · 2023=16.1 · 2024=11.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Ward Trucking LLC-Cincinnati falls in its industry

2,784 Motor freight carrier, general establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #173 safest of 186 Motor freight carrier, general employers in Ohio.

Ward Trucking LLC-Cincinnati (40 employees, TCR 10.8) 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-Cincinnati
Ward Trucking LLC-Cincinnati (40 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Ward Trucking LLC-Cincinnati has fewer employees than the Motor freight carrier, general, 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 11.3 4.5 5 0 0
2023 16.1 13.8 7 0 0
2022 13.9 6.9 6 0 0
2021 3.1 3.1 1 0 0
2020 6.7 6.7 2 0 0
2019 11.2 8.4 4 0 0
2018 13.2 7.9 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · OH · Cincinnati

2,784 Motor freight carrier, general, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 1,513 employers in Cincinnati, OH · 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 4829-11225 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR FORT WORTH (TXWTH) 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Skagit Transportation Seattle 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR DCC : 5801-00 Toyota/Princeton, IN 10.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Croton Pullet 2 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chemsteel Construction Company 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE BluSky Restoration Contractors Toledo 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Summit Construction Company LLC (Akron) 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center 17,011 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cincinnati Operations 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain : Evendale, OH 7,118 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain Evendale OH 6,400 FTE
NAT-TCR Osceola Cotton 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Marianna Foods 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Holz Rubber Company, Inc. 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Wayne Moving and Storage of New Jersey 10.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Advantech Plastics 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ward Trucking LLC-Erie 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ward Trucking LLC-Buffalo 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ward Trucking LLC-Richmond 40 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.