Industry profile · NAICS 484122

Trucking, general freight, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL)

Workplace injury rates across 2,759 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.

2,759
Employers
6.4
Avg TCR
4.5
BLS benchmark
71,011
Injuries

The industry picture

Employers in Trucking, general freight, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) average 6.4 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.4 times the BLS national benchmark of 4.5.

6.4
avg TCR · reporting employers
4.5
BLS national benchmark
2,759
employers reporting
71,011
recordable injuries

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

What Trucking, general freight, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) Safety Data Reveals

The Trucking, general freight, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) sector (NAICS 484122) encompasses 2,759 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 71,011 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 6.4 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 6.4 is higher than 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 Trucking, general freight, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) 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
Houston Shop TX FXFE-HOUS Houston, TX D 7.8
60-Philadelphia Terminal Pennsauken, NJ D 7.8
NEW Newark, NJ D 7.8
North Chicago 111 Lincolnshire, IL D 7.8
6284-Yr-152 Yt Bensalem, PA D 7.8
PV Transport Hatfield, PA D 7.8
Burlington IA FXFE-BRL West Burlington, IA D 7.8
6284-HL-JP Joplin, MO D 7.8
019 Bend Bend, OR D 7.8
PHX Phoenix Phoenix, AZ D 7.7
POS Pocono Summit, PA D 7.7
R+L Carriers - LEX Lexington, KY D 7.7
R+L Carriers - LVE Louisville, KY D 7.7
Edison 006 South Plainfield, NJ D 7.7
SJC-ODFL San Jose, CA D 7.7
St Louis 064 Fenton, MO D 7.7
XSW Salem, IL D 7.7
Columbus 087 Columbus, OH D 7.7
Watertown NY FXFE-WNY Watertown, NY D 7.7
Forrest City AR FXFE-FCY Forrest City, AR D 7.7
Grnvl/Sprtbg SC FXFE-GSP Duncan, SC D 7.7
Central Freight Lines Inc- Jacksonville Jacksonville, FL D 7.7
EBO North Reading, MA D 7.7
ABF Freight 182 Allentown, PA D 7.7
Lexington 030 Lexington, KY D 7.7
Everett WA FXFE-EVT Everett, WA D 7.7
Sacramento 212 Sacramento, CA D 7.7
AVL Mills River, NC D 7.7
Central Transport of Ohio - 442 442SH Brook Park, OH D 7.7
POR Portland, OR D 7.7
R+L Carriers - MKH Markham, IL D 7.7
031 Los Angeles Montebello, CA D 7.7
Hagerstown MD FXFE-HGR Hagerstown, MD D 7.6
Petaluma CA FXFE-PET Petaluma, CA D 7.6
American Moving and Storage, LLC Savannah, GA D 7.6
Raleigh Ral Morrisville, NC D 7.6
XSL Saint Louis, MO D 7.6
MOB Theodore, AL D 7.6
Baltimore 029 Baltimore, MD D 7.6
ABF Freight 081 Tulsa, OK D 7.6
FTW-ODFL Fort Wayne, IN D 7.6
Holland - SI Miner, MO D 7.6
XCO Columbus, OH D 7.6
Syracuse NY FXFE-SYR East Syracuse, NY D 7.6
6284-HL-SB South Bend, IN D 7.6
875 Portland Portland, OR D 7.6
XFD Fond Du Lac, WI D 7.6
Billerica 171 Billerica, MA D 7.6
PIT Gibsonia, PA D 7.6
Bmt Beaumont Orange, TX D 7.6
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This sector averages 6.4 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.