Truck bodies assembling on purchased chassis · Missouri

Knapheide Truck Equipment Co

Kansas City, MO · ~60 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Knapheide Truck Equipment Co runs at 178% 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: 5.9 TCR = 178% of Truck bodies assembling on purchased chassis BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knapheide Truck Equipment Co safety composite

Knapheide Truck Equipment Co scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 44%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% 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

−5.5

2017→2024

Knapheide Truck Equipment Co injury rate improved

Knapheide Truck Equipment Co's TCR fell 5.5 from 5.5 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 15.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.5 · 2018=4.8 · 2019=15.2 · 2020=6.0 · 2023=3.7 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336211 · Kansas City, MO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 178% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #11/20
  • PHOTO Trucks & Parts of Ta…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trucks & Parts of Tampa, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Knapheide Truck Equipment Co in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Knapheide Truck Equipment Co averages 5.9 TCR (178% 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 TCR series: 2017=5.5 · 2018=4.8 · 2019=15.2 · 2020=6 · 2023=3.7 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Knapheide Truck Equipment Co falls in its industry

470 Truck bodies assembling on pur establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 20 Truck bodies assembling on pur employers in Missouri.

Knapheide Truck Equipment Co (60 employees, TCR 5.9) 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
Knapheide Truck Equipment Co (60 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Knapheide Truck Equipment Co has fewer employees than the Truck bodies assembling on purchased cha median and a higher 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 3.7 3.7 2 0 0
2020 6.0 4.0 3 0 0
2019 15.2 10.2 9 0 0
2018 4.8 4.8 3 0 0
2017 5.5 2.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336211 · MO · Kansas City

470 Truck bodies assembling on purchased chassis employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 1,023 employers in Kansas City, MO · 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 Trucks & Parts of Tampa, LLC 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR VT Hackney - Kidron Division - Kidron, Ohio 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Supreme Midwest 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR PJ's Truck Bodies & Equipment Company 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE C3 Industries, Inc - O'Fallon 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Platte/Clay Electric Cooperative 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Black River Electric Cooperative, Fredericktown Office 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE HERZOG CONTRACTING CORP - ASPHALT 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mass Service Organization 11,859 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hallmark Cards Mass Channel 11,578 FTE
CITY-NEAR Global Merchandising Services (GMS) 9,548 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's Mercy - Missouri 7,709 FTE
NAT-TCR Walters Gardens Inc 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ohlim - Lima 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Scbea - Parris Island Center 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Omaha Tire Center & Mechanical Shop 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE RHCC Fremont 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE 327 Laurel Ridge Center 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Montebello on Academy FSQ Inc 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE CA-Lugo Substation 60 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.