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Oregon Business & Industry CompSAFE Transportation - OBIT

OGSERP discount: 5% for Oct. 1, 2023 to Sept. 30, 2024

Angela Wilhelms
President and CEO 

Membership inquiries:
Paloma Sparks
COO & General Counsel | Oregon Business & Industry
1149 Court St NE, Salem, OR 97301 
P: 800.452.7862 or 503.588.0050
Portland 503.227.5636
F: 503.588.0052
Email: obi@oregonbusinessindustry.com
Website: www.oregonbusinessindustry.com
For dues and membership information email: membership@oregonbusinessindustry.com  or call 503.588.0050 

Eligibility criteria

  • Must have an annual manual premium equal to, or greater than, $2,500 
  • Be a member in good standing of the association (dues paid current) 
  • Earned or unearned experience rating 1.00 or less
  • Group history period* incurred to manual loss ratio less than 40 percent 
  • Group history period frequency of business operations less than SAIF average
    frequency for the principal class for accounts newly enrolling in the group**
  • Group history period frequency of business operations less than 1.5 times
    the SAIF average frequency for the principal class for current group members
    renewing in the group**
  • Underwriters have judgment authority for approving group pricing.

* Group history period includes policy periods incepting within 57 months prior to the effective date of the policy year being priced and must include a minimum of 34 months of history.

** SAIF calculates an average expected claim frequency (per $100 payroll) for each class effective January 1 each year using the expected frequency for the year that corresponds to the effective date of the policy year being priced.

Principal class codes

7219 Truck - Haul
7225 Automobile Towing
7230 Trucking - Parcel/Package
7231 Mail Delivery
7232 Trucking - Mail/Parcel/Package
7360 Freight Handling
7382 Bus Co-All Emp
7403 Aviation-Airport/Heliport
8293 Furniture Moving
9310 Log Truck Driver
9403 Garbage/Ash/Refuse Collection

Class code and usage codes

The following class codes will be allowed when defined as described below.
7370 06 Medical Transport
9328 01 Truckman NOC - Garage/Dock/Warehouse

Exclusions

  • Customers engaged in cattle ranching, reforestation, and wood products (sawmills, remanufacturing, etc.) operations, as well as high-hazard classes (examples: shipbuilding, roofing, iron/steel erecting)