Automobile transporter trailers, single car, manufacturing · North Carolina

Kaufman Trailers, LLC

Lexington, NC · ~115 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kaufman Trailers, LLC runs at 121% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Automobile transporter trailers, single car, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Kaufman Trailers, LLC: 4.0 TCR = 121% of Automobile transporter trailers, single car, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kaufman Trailers, LLC safety composite

Kaufman Trailers, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.8

2023→2024

Kaufman Trailers, LLC injury rate improved

Kaufman Trailers, LLC's TCR fell 0.8 from 4.4 in 2023 to 3.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=4.4 · 2024=3.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336214 · Lexington, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 121% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK P76
  • PHOTO Carry-On Trailer Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~115 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Carry-On Trailer Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kaufman Trailers, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kaufman Trailers, LLC averages 4.0 TCR (121% of the Automobile transporter trailers, single car, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kaufman Trailers, LLC TCR series: 2023=4.4 · 2024=3.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Kaufman Trailers, LLC falls in its industry

262 Automobile transporter trailer establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Kaufman Trailers, LLC (115 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 Kaufman Trailers, LLC
Kaufman Trailers, LLC (115 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 121 employees and a TCR of 7.2

Kaufman Trailers, LLC has fewer employees than the Automobile transporter trailers, single 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 3.6 3.6 3 0 0
2023 4.4 4.4 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336214 · NC · Lexington

262 Automobile transporter trailers, single car, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 120 employers in Lexington, 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 Carry-On Trailer Inc 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aluma Bancroft 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Truck Accessories Group - East (Fiberglass Plant) 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Keystone RV Company - Plant 6 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Brunswick Electric Membership Corp. Supply District 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE County of Harnett-Harnett Regional Water 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heavy Highway 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Comfort Mechanical Contractors, Inc. 115 FTE
CITY-NEAR Davidson County Schools 3,351 FTE
CITY-NEAR Davidson County Government 1,237 FTE
CITY-NEAR Atrium Windows & Door 910 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASCO Power Technologies 639 FTE
NAT-TCR Paul Durham Electric Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Homewerks Worldwide LLC Lake Bluff 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR The Beekman a Thompson Hotel 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Xtreme Marine Corporation 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE New Look Contracting, Inc 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cap Group LLC 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Donaldson Company Inc. 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Quadratec, Inc. 115 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.