Bus bodies assembling on purchased chassis · North Carolina

Matthews Specialty Vehicles

Greensboro, NC · ~69 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Matthews Specialty Vehicles runs at 352% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bus bodies assembling on purchased chassis workplace, earning a grade F.

Matthews Specialty Vehicles: 11.6 TCR = 352% of Bus bodies assembling on purchased chassis BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Matthews Specialty Vehicles safety composite

Matthews Specialty Vehicles scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

−16.8

2016→2018

Matthews Specialty Vehicles injury rate improved

Matthews Specialty Vehicles's TCR fell 16.8 from 23.7 in 2016 to 6.9 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 23.7 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=23.7 · 2017=4.3 · 2018=6.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336211 · Greensboro, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.6 · 352% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #27/29
  • PHOTO Midwest fire inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~69 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Midwest fire inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Matthews Specialty Vehicles in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Matthews Specialty Vehicles averages 11.6 TCR (352% of the Bus bodies assembling on purchased chassis BLS benchmark).

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

Matthews Specialty Vehicles TCR series: 2016=23.7 · 2017=4.3 · 2018=6.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Matthews Specialty Vehicles falls in its industry

470 Bus bodies assembling on purch establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 29 Bus bodies assembling on purch employers in North Carolina.

Matthews Specialty Vehicles (69 employees, TCR 11.6) 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 Matthews Specialty Vehicles
Matthews Specialty Vehicles (69 employees, TCR 11.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Matthews Specialty Vehicles has fewer employees than the Bus bodies assembling on purchased chass 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
2018 6.9 4.1 5 0 0
2017 4.3 1.4 3 0 0
2016 23.7 11.1 11 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336211 · NC · Greensboro

470 Bus bodies assembling on purchased chassis employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 920 employers in Greensboro, 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 Midwest fire inc. 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR US TRUCK BODY/MIDWEST 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Morgan Truck Body LLC MPA 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR AJR, Inc./Rhodes Trailers & Truck Bodies 11.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE APEX OPERATIONS 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE SOUTH RALEIGH OPERATIONS 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brunswick Regional Water & Sewer H2GO 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lendlease - Charlotte Office 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR MHCMH-Cone-Moses H Cone Memorial Hospital 3,806 FTE
CITY-NEAR Guilford County Local Government - All Employees 3,270 FTE
CITY-NEAR Guilford County Local Government 3,194 FTE
CITY-NEAR NCGRE - GREENSBORO HUB 2,447 FTE
NAT-TCR WJ Beitler Co-Stafford 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Plating Division 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Franklin (Tnfra) 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR HCC 11.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE GSDI Specialty Dispersions Inc. 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Merced RTS 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vern Eide Ford 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Concrete Products - Valley, Nebraska 69 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: 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.