Trucks, industrial, manufacturing · Michigan

Knapheide Truck Equipment

Flint, MI · ~82 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Knapheide Truck Equipment runs at 236% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Trucks, industrial, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Knapheide Truck Equipment: 7.8 TCR = 236% of Trucks, industrial, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knapheide Truck Equipment safety composite

Knapheide Truck Equipment scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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).

F

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

−3.3

2017→2022

Knapheide Truck Equipment injury rate improved

Knapheide Truck Equipment's TCR fell 3.3 from 9.2 in 2017 to 5.9 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 9.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=9.2 · 2018=8.3 · 2022=5.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333924 · Flint, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 236% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Auburn NE
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~82 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Auburn NE (0.1 TCR gap)

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Knapheide Truck Equipment in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Knapheide Truck Equipment averages 7.8 TCR (236% of the Trucks, industrial, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Knapheide Truck Equipment TCR series: 2017=9.2 · 2018=8.3 · 2022=5.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Knapheide Truck Equipment falls in its industry

167 Trucks, industrial, manufactur establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Trucks, industrial, manufactur employers in Michigan.

Knapheide Truck Equipment (82 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Knapheide Truck Equipment
Knapheide Truck Equipment (82 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Knapheide Truck Equipment has fewer employees than the Trucks, industrial, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2022 5.9 2.9 4 0 0
2018 8.3 2.8 6 0 0
2017 9.2 1.5 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333924 · MI · Flint

167 Trucks, industrial, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 260 employers in Flint, MI · 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 Auburn NE 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rite Hite Products - Horn Lake 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stinar 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crown Equipment Corporation Celina 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Riveridge Packing 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marysville Service Center 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Construction 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Christman Company - Detroit 82 FTE
CITY-NEAR GM Flint Truck Assembly 5,164 FTE
CITY-NEAR Flint Assembly 3,920 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hurley Medical Center 2,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR McLaren Flint 2,477 FTE
NAT-TCR Tony's Fresh Market 1367 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Peterson Sheetmetal 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR NationServe Raleigh 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sutter Gould Medical Foundation (195-101) 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Darwin's Natural Pet Products 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fluoresco Services Phoenix Branch 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6458-ZPMC 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE DBK Inc 82 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: 2022, 2018, 2017. 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.