Truck bodies assembling on purchased chassis · Alabama

Knapheide Truck Equipment Co Midsouth

Birmingham, AL · ~28 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Knapheide Truck Equipment Co Midsouth runs at 129% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Truck bodies assembling on purchased chassis workplace, earning a grade D.

Knapheide Truck Equipment Co Midsouth: 4.3 TCR = 129% of Truck bodies assembling on purchased chassis BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knapheide Truck Equipment Co Midsouth safety composite

Knapheide Truck Equipment Co Midsouth scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

Knapheide Truck Equipment Co Midsouth: 4.4 → 6.4 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 11.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.49× in 2024

Knapheide Truck Equipment Co Midsouth's TCR rose 2.0 from 4.4 in 2016 to 6.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 11.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336211 · Birmingham, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 129% of ind

  • DART 6.4 DART
  • RANK #10/16
  • PHOTO CMCF
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CMCF (0.0 TCR gap)

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Knapheide Truck Equipment Co Midsouth in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Knapheide Truck Equipment Co Midsouth averages 4.3 TCR (129% of the Truck bodies assembling on purchased chassis BLS benchmark).

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

Knapheide Truck Equipment Co Midsouth TCR series: 2016=4.4 · 2017=11.7 · 2018=2.3 · 2019=3.1 · 2020=3.4 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=3.7 · 2023=0 · 2024=6.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Knapheide Truck Equipment Co Midsouth falls in its industry

470 Truck bodies assembling on pur establishments

Safer than 63% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 16 Truck bodies assembling on pur employers in Alabama.

Knapheide Truck Equipment Co Midsouth (28 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Knapheide Truck Equipment Co Midsouth
Knapheide Truck Equipment Co Midsouth (28 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Knapheide Truck Equipment Co Midsouth has fewer employees than the Truck bodies assembling on purchased cha median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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 6.4 6.4 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.7 3.7 1 0 0
2021 3.5 0.0 1 0 0
2020 3.4 3.4 1 0 0
2019 3.1 3.1 1 0 0
2018 2.3 0.0 1 0 0
2017 11.7 3.9 3 0 0
2016 4.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336211 · AL · Birmingham

470 Truck bodies assembling on purchased chassis employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 840 employers in Birmingham, AL · 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 CMCF 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oilmen's Truck Tanks 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MG MPE 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rolltechs Specialty Vehicles, LLC 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hillabee Plant 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hillabee 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southeast Division Headland Office 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE W.K. Upchurch Construction Co., Inc. 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR USD 9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR CLASSIC FOODS 9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR BIRMINGHAM PACKERS 8,650 FTE
NAT-TCR Cedar Valley Cheese 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR GL 7113 USS Triton 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR GL 7122 USS Pearl Harbor 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Branson Lakes 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE HLC Trucking Co 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ephrata Store 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lemoyne Store 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Louis L. Buttermark & Sons, Inc. 28 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.