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
Lafayette IN FXFE-LAF Lafayette, IN D 6.2
Central Transport - 480 480SH Detroit, MI D 6.2
Omaha Rock Island, IL D 6.2
SLC Salt Lake City Salt Lake City, UT D 6.2
006-MSP Roseville, MN D 6.2
Dayton 067 Huber Heights, OH D 6.2
Chicago IL FXFE-CGX Summit, IL D 6.2
XGS Houston Houston, TX D 6.2
XGB Green Bay, WI D 6.2
Boston 080 Avon, MA D 6.2
6284-NP-1160 Neville Island, PA D 6.2
LFT Scott, LA D 6.2
City of Industry 299 City of Industry, CA D 6.2
Montpelier VT FXFE-MPV Berlin, VT D 6.2
SMT Lines - HRL Harlingen, TX D 6.2
USA Sacramento, CA D 6.2
Dgh - Daikin Comfort Tech. Houston, TX D 6.2
Central Transport - 381 & 381SH Memphis, TN D 6.2
Salt Lake Shuttle/ Western Regional Salt Lake City, UT D 6.2
Atoka 194 Atoka, OK D 6.2
Denver CO FXFE-DEN Henderson, CO D 6.2
Rockaway NJ FXFE-RNJ Rockaway, NJ D 6.2
Salem OR FXFE-SLM Salem, OR D 6.2
Central Transport - 752 752SH Fort Worth, TX D 6.2
847 Gardena Gardena, CA D 6.2
NJ-Kearny-Field Office Kearny, NJ D 6.2
R+L Carriers - CHR China Grove, NC D 6.2
XGN Aurora, NE D 6.2
Hi-Ball Trucking Billings, MT D 6.2
Rock Island IL FXFE-RKI East Moline, IL D 6.2
Holland - DE Romulus, MI D 6.2
NCH Charlotte, NC D 6.2
JCK Richland, MS D 6.2
Chico 226 Chico, CA D 6.2
AUS Round Rock, TX D 6.2
SPL-ODFL Edison, NJ D 6.2
6284-Yr-187 Rx Brooklyn, NY D 6.1
NTP Tampa, FL D 6.1
Kansas City Shop KS FXFE-KCYS Edwardsville, KS D 6.1
CLX Calexico, CA D 6.1
Omaha 136 Avoca, IA D 6.1
Topeka KS FXFE-TOP Topeka, KS D 6.1
NMA Byron, GA D 6.1
ONT Service Center Fontana, CA D 6.1
430-DC001 Compton, CA D 6.1
BOI-ODFL Boise, ID D 6.1
6284-Yr-126 Yt Carlstadt, NJ D 6.1
Br Birch Run Birch Run, MI D 6.1
XDP Des Plaines, IL D 6.1
Central Transport - 029 Lincoln, RI D 6.1
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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.