The moving industry's crash record, in three numbers: 8,624 reportable crashes on file for licensed household goods movers, involving 285 deaths and 3,960 injuries. 178 licensed movers have been involved in a crash that killed someone. And an honest data note: these counts are harder to use than they look.
Here's the trap: crash counts punish size. A 400-truck carrier will record more crashes than a two-truck firm simply by driving vastly more miles — without being more dangerous per mile. The federal files don't publish per-carrier mileage, so no true rate can be computed, and any site ranking movers by raw crash count is doing arithmetic on noise.
That's how our carrier tables present it: crash count next to truck count, with fatalities and injuries broken out, and the out-of-service rate — which is a rate — alongside. The pattern worth knowing: 12.2% of movers have any crash on record at all, concentrated heavily among larger fleets, which is exposure doing exactly what exposure does.
Method: FMCSA SMS crash file (258,353 records) joined to our carrier set on USDOT number; fatalities and injuries summed per carrier. Retrieved 14 August 2026.