Car bodies, kit, manufacturing · Texas

Knapheide Truck Equipment Company Southwest

Red Oak, TX · ~68 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Knapheide Truck Equipment Company Southwest runs at 105% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Car bodies, kit, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Knapheide Truck Equipment Company Southwest: 3.5 TCR = 105% of Car bodies, kit, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knapheide Truck Equipment Company Southwest safety composite

Knapheide Truck Equipment Company Southwest scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% 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).

C

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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

−0.5

2017→2024

Knapheide Truck Equipment Company Southwest injury rate improved

Knapheide Truck Equipment Company Southwest's TCR fell 0.5 from 4.0 in 2017 to 3.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.0 · 2018=7.1 · 2020=3.1 · 2021=3.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2024=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336211 · Red Oak, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 105% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #11/26
  • PHOTO Gerling and Associat…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gerling and Associates, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Knapheide Truck Equipment Company Southwest in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Knapheide Truck Equipment Company Southwest averages 3.5 TCR (105% of the Car bodies, kit, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Knapheide Truck Equipment Company Southwest TCR series: 2017=4 · 2018=7.1 · 2020=3.1 · 2021=3 · 2022=0 · 2024=3.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Knapheide Truck Equipment Company Southwest falls in its industry

470 Car bodies, kit, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 26 Car bodies, kit, manufacturing employers in Texas.

Knapheide Truck Equipment Company Southwest (68 employees, TCR 3.5) 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 Company Southwest
Knapheide Truck Equipment Company Southwest (68 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Knapheide Truck Equipment Company Southwest has fewer employees than the Car bodies, kit, manufacturing 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 3.5 2.3 3 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 3.0 1.0 3 0 0
2020 3.1 3.1 3 0 0
2018 7.1 6.1 7 0 0
2017 4.0 2.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336211 · TX · Red Oak

470 Car bodies, kit, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 18 employers in Red Oak, TX · 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 Gerling and Associates, Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Morgan Truck Body LLC MTX 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR VCM - Morley 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Palfinger US, American Roll Off 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cal Maine Foods, inc 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lon Hill Transmission Service 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Enterprise Products (Texas NGL) 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1500 W LOOP 340 WACO TX 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR Red Oak Facility 761 FTE
CITY-NEAR Qarbon Aerospace 453 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3433 348 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3433 334 FTE
NAT-TCR Kem Krest - Phoenix 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Barrington of West Chester 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Gerace Construction 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Dalton Motors SD, LLC 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Stratford at Beyer Park 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE BBI Aurora 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stateline Foundries Inc 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE T A Woods 68 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.