Truck trailer manufacturing · Idaho

Big Tex Caldwell

Caldwell, ID · ~76 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Tex Caldwell runs at 173% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Truck trailer manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Big Tex Caldwell: 5.7 TCR = 173% of Truck trailer manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Tex Caldwell safety composite

Big Tex Caldwell scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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).

D

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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%).

TCR Δ

−7.8

2023→2024

Big Tex Caldwell injury rate improved

Big Tex Caldwell's TCR fell 7.8 from 9.6 in 2023 to 1.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=9.6 · 2024=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336212 · Caldwell, ID ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 173% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #6/16
  • PHOTO Fontaine Specialized
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~76 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fontaine Specialized (0.1 TCR gap)

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Big Tex Caldwell in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Tex Caldwell averages 5.7 TCR (173% of the Truck trailer manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Big Tex Caldwell TCR series: 2023=9.6 · 2024=1.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Big Tex Caldwell falls in its industry

474 Truck trailer manufacturing establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Idaho alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 16 Truck trailer manufacturing employers in Idaho.

Big Tex Caldwell (76 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Big Tex Caldwell
Big Tex Caldwell (76 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Big Tex Caldwell has fewer employees than the Truck trailer manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2023 9.6 7.0 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336212 · ID · Caldwell

474 Truck trailer manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,774 rated employers in Idaho with headcount on file · 118 employers in Caldwell, ID · 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 Fontaine Specialized 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flinthills Industries 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 118_15957 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wabash Lafayette South 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nelson Electric LLC 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE DeBest Plumbing, Inc. 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Empire Lumber Co - Weippe Operations 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE IPEX USA LLC 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR West Valley Medical Center 564 FTE
CITY-NEAR FG Idaho Plant - Caldwell 519 FTE
CITY-NEAR JR Simplot - Food - Idaho Plant 510 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2780 439 FTE
NAT-TCR Newport News Va 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Astoria Place Living & Rehab Center 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Phillips Plumbing and Mechanical 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hajoca 554 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Occasions Group - IN - 0156-INSU1 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kansas City Embassy Suites 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-Orlando 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-Albany 76 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.