General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) · Pennsylvania
Watsontown Trucking Company
Milton, PA · ~544 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- B
- Good Safety Record
- 3.1
- Avg TCR
- 4.5
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Watsontown Trucking Company runs at 69% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade B.
- B
- Good Safety Record
- 3.1
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 4.5
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 92
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares Watsontown Trucking Company's OSHA Total Case Rate of 3.1 to the General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark of 4.5 (69% of benchmark) across 6 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). This reflects reported recordable injuries, not an independent safety inspection -- underreporting is a known limitation of employer self-recordkeeping.
Injury rate over time
Watsontown Trucking Company's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 4.5 industry benchmark.
Where Watsontown Trucking Company falls in its industry
3,776 General freight trucking, long establishmentsSafer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.
Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #103 safest of 203 General freight trucking, long employers in Pennsylvania.
Trend analysis for Watsontown Trucking Company
Between 2016 and 2024, Watsontown Trucking Company's Total Case Rate improved from 7.3 to 2.1 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 72% decrease across 8 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2022, at a TCR of 0.6, while 2016 saw the highest rate, at 7.3, a spread of 6.7 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 6 reporting years, Watsontown Trucking Company recorded 92 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 6-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 92 injuries shown on this page for Watsontown Trucking Company are sourced from its own 6 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 484121 - General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL).
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
12 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 1,163,583 hours worked = 2.06 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Watsontown Trucking Company (this establishment) | 3.10 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 6-year avg |
| General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) industry avg | 4.50 | BLS IIF, NAICS 484121 |
| Pennsylvania state avg (all industries) | 5.06 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Watsontown Trucking Company to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2024: 12 reportable incidents · 12 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2023: 12 reportable incidents · 12 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 4 reportable incidents · 4 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2021: 6 reportable incidents · 6 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 30 reportable incidents · 30 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2016: 28 reportable incidents · 28 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.1 | 2.1 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 6.0 | 2.6 | 30 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 7.3 | 4.4 | 28 | 0 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Watsontown Trucking Company's reported OSHA injury record, strong versus its General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) peers, but not a guarantee about any single site today.
- At 69% of the General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) benchmark, Watsontown Trucking Company reports fewer injuries than typical peers, still worth asking how safety is managed day to day. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.