Utility trailers manufacturing · Alabama

Better Built Trailers, Inc.

Name: Better Built Trailers, Inc. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Double Springs, AL · ~66 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.3
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Better Built Trailers, Inc. runs at 41% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Utility trailers manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Better Built Trailers, Inc.: 1.3 TCR = 41% of Utility trailers manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Better Built Trailers, Inc. safety composite

Better Built Trailers, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% 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).

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 1.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers
DART rate: C 1.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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%).

Better Built Trailers, Inc. held a steady TCR band

Better Built Trailers, Inc.'s TCR held near 0.3 from 1.2 in 2017 to 1.5 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.11× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.2 · 2018=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336214 · Double Springs, AL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 41% of ind

DART 1.5 DART
RANK P96
PHOTO PLANT 401
BOOK 2y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~66 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PLANT 401 (0.0 TCR gap)

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PLANT 401

1.4
Truck Accessor

1.4
This site

1.3
ARE Accessorie

1.3
Keystone RV Co

1.3

What this shows Better Built Trailers, Inc. averages 1.3 TCR (41% of the Utility trailers manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Better Built Trailers, Inc. TCR series: 2017=1.2 · 2018=1.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Better Built Trailers, Inc. falls in its industry

262 Utility trailers manufacturing establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Better Built Trailers, Inc. (66 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 121 employees and a TCR of 7.2

Better Built Trailers, Inc. 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
2018	1.5	1.5	1	0	0
2017	1.2	1.2	1	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336214 · AL · Double Springs

262 Utility trailers manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 10 employers in Double Springs, AL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	PLANT 401	MIDDLEBURY, IN	1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Truck Accessories Group, LLC dba Bedslide, LLC	MEDFORD, OR	1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	ARE Accessories LLC	MASSILLON, OH	1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Keystone RV Company - Plant 204	GOSHEN, IN	1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Western Division Tuscaloosa Crew Headquarters	TUSCALOOSA	66 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Signature Homes-Birmingham office	HOOVER	66 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Smith Douglas Alabama	PELHAM	66 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Jim Cooper Construction Company, inc.	BIRMINGHAM	66 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Winston Homebuilders	Double Springs	286 FTE
CITY-NEAR	LCI - 203	Double Springs	168 FTE
CITY-NEAR	203 LCI	Double Springs	145 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Hendrix Health and Rehabilitation	Double Springs	128 FTE
NAT-TCR	Youngstown Location	Girard, OH	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Ngl Crude Transportation, LLC-Rockies	Ft. Lupton, CO	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Eli Lilly - Lilly Technology Center	Indianapolis, IN	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Billings	Billings, OK	1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Custom-Crete, Austin	Austin, TX	66 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Conner Conroe Tx Plant	Conroe, TX	66 FTE
NAT-SIZE	NA-US-DE-Newark-Executive Drive	Newark, DE	66 FTE
NAT-SIZE	4795-PD-ALB-ALBANY-PD	Albany, NY	66 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.