Truck trailer manufacturing · Georgia

Big Tex Cordele

Cordele, GA · ~104 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

Big Tex Cordele runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Truck trailer manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Big Tex Cordele: 1.3 TCR = 39% of Truck trailer manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Tex Cordele safety composite

Big Tex Cordele scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Big Tex Cordele: 0.9 → 1.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.66× in 2024

Big Tex Cordele's TCR rose 0.8 from 0.9 in 2023 to 1.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336212 · Cordele, GA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 39% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #2/18
  • PHOTO VA03-SMA-VERONA
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~104 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: VA03-SMA-VERONA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Tex Cordele in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Tex Cordele averages 1.3 TCR (39% 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 Cordele TCR series: 2023=0.9 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Big Tex Cordele falls in its industry

474 Truck trailer manufacturing establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 18 Truck trailer manufacturing employers in Georgia.

Big Tex Cordele (104 employees, TCR 1.3) 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 Cordele
Big Tex Cordele (104 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Big Tex Cordele has more employees than the Truck trailer manufacturing median and a lower 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 1.7 0.8 2 0 0
2023 0.9 0.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336212 · GA · Cordele

474 Truck trailer manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 49 employers in Cordele, GA · 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 VA03-SMA-VERONA 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR L0394-LITHIA HYUNDAI OF WESLEY CHAPEL 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kale Trucking Inc. 786 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Imperial Express, Inc 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE EC Electric Inc 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Polk County Public Service, Inc. 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Woodman Insulation Inc. 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE B&D Concrete Cutting, Inc. 104 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crisp Regional Hospital 560 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1006 293 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marvair 290 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1006 290 FTE
NAT-TCR Horseshoe Indianapolis 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Curia 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Rockford Gastroenterology Associates, Ltd. 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Coffeyville 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Twin Ports Health Services 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Source International 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Northeastern State Univ 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bulldog Logistics, LLC 104 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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