Utility trailers manufacturing · Indiana

American Cargo Group Trailers, LLC - ELKHART

Elkhart, IN · ~67 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

American Cargo Group Trailers, LLC - ELKHART runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Utility trailers manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

American Cargo Group Trailers, LLC - ELKHART: 2.9 TCR = 88% of Utility trailers manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

American Cargo Group Trailers, LLC - ELKHART safety composite

American Cargo Group Trailers, LLC - ELKHART scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

Rising injury rate

American Cargo Group Trailers, LLC - ELKHART: 1.6 → 4.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.72× in 2024

American Cargo Group Trailers, LLC - ELKHART's TCR rose 2.6 from 1.6 in 2023 to 4.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336214 · Elkhart, IN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 88% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #19/125
  • PHOTO Keystone RV Company …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~67 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Keystone RV Company - Plant 3 (0.0 TCR gap)

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American Cargo Group Trailers, LLC - ELKHART in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows American Cargo Group Trailers, LLC - ELKHART averages 2.9 TCR (88% of the Utility trailers manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

American Cargo Group Trailers, LLC - ELKHART TCR series: 2023=1.6 · 2024=4.2 · BLS 3.3

Where American Cargo Group Trailers, LLC - ELKHART falls in its industry

262 Utility trailers manufacturing establishments

Safer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 125 Utility trailers manufacturing employers in Indiana.

American Cargo Group Trailers, LLC - ELKHART (67 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 121 employees and a TCR of 7.2 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate American Cargo Group Trailers, LLC - ELKHART
American Cargo Group Trailers, LLC - ELKHART (67 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 121 employees and a TCR of 7.2

American Cargo Group Trailers, LLC - ELKHART has fewer employees than the Utility trailers manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.2. 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
2024 4.2 2.1 2 0 0
2023 1.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336214 · IN · Elkhart

262 Utility trailers manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 401 employers in Elkhart, IN · 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 Keystone RV Company - Plant 3 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Larson Cable Trailers 601 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Keystone RV Company - Plant 50 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aluminum Trailer Company Plant 4 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Northern Indiana Laborers 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midwest Division Office 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE CenterPoint Energy - AB Brown 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steinberger Construction Inc 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR Forest River, Inc. 12,549 FTE
CITY-NEAR THOR MOTOR COACH 2,437 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elkhart Community Schools 1,892 FTE
CITY-NEAR HRV LLC 1,692 FTE
NAT-TCR Layhill SNF LLC 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 720 Urbana 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Asheboro 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR STR0039 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fountainbleau Lodge 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Guido Lumber Company Inc 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE 301 Culinaria 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seward Operating, LLC 67 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: 2024, 2023. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.