Trucking, general freight, local · Maine

WT Gardner & Sons Inc

Chester, ME · ~61 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

WT Gardner & Sons Inc runs at 116% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Trucking, general freight, local workplace, earning a grade C.

WT Gardner & Sons Inc: 5.2 TCR = 116% of Trucking, general freight, local BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

WT Gardner & Sons Inc safety composite

WT Gardner & Sons Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

−6.2

2022→2024

WT Gardner & Sons Inc injury rate improved

WT Gardner & Sons Inc's TCR fell 6.2 from 10.3 in 2022 to 4.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 10.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=10.3 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=4.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Chester, ME ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.2 · 116% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #4/15
  • PHOTO LAC Logistics LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~61 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LAC Logistics LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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WT Gardner & Sons Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows WT Gardner & Sons Inc averages 5.2 TCR (116% of the Trucking, general freight, local BLS benchmark).

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

WT Gardner & Sons Inc TCR series: 2022=10.3 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 4.5

Where WT Gardner & Sons Inc falls in its industry

2,784 Trucking, general freight, loc establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maine alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 15 Trucking, general freight, loc employers in Maine.

WT Gardner & Sons Inc (61 employees, TCR 5.2) 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 WT Gardner & Sons Inc
WT Gardner & Sons Inc (61 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

WT Gardner & Sons Inc has more employees than the Trucking, general freight, 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 4.1 4.1 3 0 0
2023 1.3 0.0 1 0 0
2022 10.3 2.6 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · ME · Chester

2,784 Trucking, general freight, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,397 rated employers in Maine with headcount on file · 8 employers in Chester, ME · 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 LAC Logistics LLC 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR R&M Trucking Co. 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR R.M. Sullivan Transportation Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR SCWCO - COLUMBIA 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE P381 @ BREWER 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE KATAHDIN FOREST PRODUCTS01-032 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northeast Laboratory Services 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brooks Trap Mill 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR Treeline Inc. 78 FTE
CITY-NEAR Robin A. Crawford & Son Woods 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR W.T. Gardner & Sons, Inc 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gardner Logging Services Inc 29 FTE
NAT-TCR Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Cypress 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR RRSC Ft. Lauderdale 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Steel LLC 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Eillien's Candies Packerland 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Arbors at Greenfield 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yuma Feedlot 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Station 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Westlake Pipe & Fittings 61 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.