Industry profile · NAICS 484121

General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL)

Workplace injury rates across 2,880 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.

2,880
Employers
3.9
Avg TCR
4.5
BLS benchmark
51,158
Injuries

The industry picture

Employers in General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) average 3.9 recordable injuries per 100 workers, below the BLS national benchmark of 4.5.

3.9
avg TCR · reporting employers
4.5
BLS national benchmark
2,880
employers reporting
51,158
recordable injuries

OSHA-reporting establishments skew toward larger, higher-hazard sites, so the reporting average runs above the BLS all-establishment benchmark.

What General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) Safety Data Reveals

The General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) sector (NAICS 484121) encompasses 2,880 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 51,158 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 3.9 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year. Because OSHA's ITA mandates submission from establishments with 250+ employees plus all high-hazard industries at 20+ employees, this dataset represents a structural slice of U.S. workplace risk rather than a voluntary sample.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes a separate national benchmark TCR of 4.5 for this NAICS code, derived from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Comparing the two, the ITA-reported rate of 3.9 is below the BLS benchmark, a gap that typically widens when the industry contains many large, high-exposure establishments required to file ITA reports. Employers in the table below are sorted so you can see how far individual establishments deviate from both the industry average and the national benchmark.

The practical value of industry-level safety data is threefold. First, jobseekers can gauge whether a prospective employer is better or worse than its industry peers, not just absolute injury counts, which tilt toward larger payrolls. Second, insurers and workers' compensation carriers use sector TCR as a baseline for experience-modification adjustments. Third, safety professionals benchmark their own programs against the cohort median. Use the grade-sorted employer list below to identify specific establishments within General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) that outperform or underperform the sector average, and click through to each record for year-by-year injury, illness, and fatality breakdowns.

Employers in this industry, by injury rate

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Employer LocationGradeAvg TCR
Pride Transport Inc. Salt Lake City, UT B 2.8
Sumter Sumter, SC B 2.8
Tidewater Transit-Cowpens Cowpens, SC B 2.8
Lincoln, AL Lincoln, AL B 2.8
ECM Transport-Baltimore Baltimore, MD B 2.8
PA-Mechanicsburg Mechanicsburg, PA B 2.8
Wm 6866 Hopkinsville, KY B 2.8
Flex-N-Gate Logistics Covington, IN B 2.8
TN013 - TN-Nashville-Operating Center Lebanon, TN B 2.8
ECM Transport-Columbus Columbus, OH B 2.8
Arctic Express, Inc Hilliard, OH B 2.8
Ltia Anc Anchorage, AK B 2.8
6848 Opelousas, LA B 2.8
Corporate/Baltimore General/ RE Michel/Regional Road/ SSL MD Halethorpe, MD B 2.8
Eagle Motor Freight Inc. Montgomery, AL B 2.8
Southland Transportation Boonville, NC B 2.8
Orz Ltl Elk Grove Village, IL B 2.8
W.S. Emerian Trucking, Inc. Fresno, CA B 2.8
Intermodal Cartage Co. - Nashville Nashville, TN B 2.8
6817 Seymour, IN B 2.8
Roeder Cartage Co., Inc. Lima, OH B 2.8
Faf Bwz Glen Burnie, MD B 2.8
Letica Freightlines Rochester, MI B 2.8
Fredericksburg CTS Fredericksburg, PA B 2.8
Heniff Transportation Systems LLC - Geismar, La Geismar, LA B 2.8
Freeport Transport Industries, Inc. Freeport, PA B 2.8
Armellini California Oxnard, CA B 2.8
TX-Houston-Van Operating Center Houston, TX B 2.8
Maverick Transportation, LLC - Church Hill, TN Church Hill, TN B 2.8
Wm 6817 Seymour, IN B 2.8
RUSTBURG Roanoke, VA B 2.8
6819 Loveland, CO B 2.8
6223-855 Portland, OR B 2.8
Mco Ltl Orlando, FL B 2.8
Taylor Transport, Inc. Cartersville, GA B 2.8
Tri-National, Inc Charleston, MO B 2.8
Ashley Pacific North West - California Colton, CA B 2.8
Wm 6868 Sanger, TX B 2.8
Fairchild Freight LLC - Grandview, Washington Grandview, WA B 2.8
Indianapolis Terminal-NON DOT Indianapolis, IN B 2.8
Poway, CA - 12775 Stowe Drive Poway, CA B 2.8
6837 Hermiston, OR B 2.8
The Transportation Guys Driver Management LLC Sacramento, CA B 2.8
Eagle Ludington Ludington, MI B 2.7
300000170856251 - MA-Shrewsbury-Operating Center Shrewsbury, MA B 2.7
7838 Fort Pierce, FL B 2.7
TransAm Trucking, Inc. - Olathe Main Olathe, KS B 2.7
Arcadia (Onsite Walmart) Arcadia, FL B 2.7
Chief Express, LLC Seagrove, NC B 2.7
WDS Enterprises Inc. Shepherd, MI B 2.7
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This sector averages 3.9 against a BLS benchmark of 4.5 - but individual employers span the full A-to-F range.

Sector figures use the credible-subset mean across reporting employers; a benchmark is not any single establishment's measured rate.

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.