Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing · North Carolina

Adkins Truck Equipment Co.

Charlotte, NC · ~69 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Adkins Truck Equipment Co. runs at 319% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Adkins Truck Equipment Co.: 10.5 TCR = 319% of Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Adkins Truck Equipment Co. safety composite

Adkins Truck Equipment Co. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Adkins Truck Equipment Co. held a steady TCR band

Adkins Truck Equipment Co.'s TCR held near 0.1 from 8.8 in 2017 to 8.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 16.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.8 · 2018=14.5 · 2019=16.3 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=12.6 · 2022=7.9 · 2023=8.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336211 · Charlotte, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.5 · 319% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #26/29
  • PHOTO Nova Steel
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 52 inj
  • SIZE ~69 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nova Steel (0.1 TCR gap)

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Adkins Truck Equipment Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Adkins Truck Equipment Co. averages 10.5 TCR (319% of the Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Adkins Truck Equipment Co. TCR series: 2017=8.8 · 2018=14.5 · 2019=16.3 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=12.6 · 2022=7.9 · 2023=8.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Adkins Truck Equipment Co. falls in its industry

470 Truck bodies and cabs manufact establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 29 Truck bodies and cabs manufact employers in North Carolina.

Adkins Truck Equipment Co. (69 employees, TCR 10.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Adkins Truck Equipment Co.
Adkins Truck Equipment Co. (69 employees, TCR 10.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Adkins Truck Equipment Co. has fewer employees than the Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2023 8.9 6.0 6 0 0
2022 7.9 4.7 5 0 0
2021 12.6 6.3 8 0 0
2020 4.8 3.2 3 0 0
2019 16.3 11.3 13 0 0
2018 14.5 10.6 11 0 0
2017 8.8 1.5 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336211 · NC · Charlotte

470 Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 2,058 employers in Charlotte, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Nova Steel 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3948_7562 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marion Body Works Shawano 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR ST Engineering Hackney Inc. 10.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE APEX OPERATIONS 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE SOUTH RALEIGH OPERATIONS 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brunswick Regional Water & Sewer H2GO 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lendlease - Charlotte Office 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1101-Carolinas Medical Center (1101) 8,444 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0001-Carolinas Medical Center 8,032 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4795-AA-CLT-CHARLOTTE-CLT-TRML 7,295 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center 4,973 FTE
NAT-TCR Magnolia Manor Greenwood 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Northwest Framing Systems 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Raley's 416-Sacramento 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Park Vista Camanche 10.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE ODC Network 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE FBX_BWS_AV_SD 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Triangle Services - Palm Beach International Airport 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Primary Elem 69 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.