Trucking, general freight, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) · Alabama

Mercedes Dmb

Vance, AL · ~275 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mercedes Dmb runs at 94% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Trucking, general freight, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) workplace, earning a grade C.

Mercedes Dmb: 4.3 TCR = 94% of Trucking, general freight, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mercedes Dmb safety composite

Mercedes Dmb scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Mercedes Dmb: 2.5 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 4.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.9× in 2024

Mercedes Dmb's TCR rose 2.1 from 2.5 in 2019 to 4.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Vance, AL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.3 · 94% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #21/62
  • PHOTO MO-Saint Louis-621-Y…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 86 inj
  • SIZE ~275 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MO-Saint Louis-621-YRC Freight (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mercedes Dmb in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mercedes Dmb averages 4.3 TCR (94% of the Trucking, general freight, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS benchmark).

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

Mercedes Dmb TCR series: 2019=2.5 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=4.9 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Mercedes Dmb falls in its industry

3,020 Trucking, general freight, lon establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 62 Trucking, general freight, lon employers in Alabama.

Mercedes Dmb (275 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Mercedes Dmb
Mercedes Dmb (275 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Mercedes Dmb has more employees than the Trucking, general freight, long-distance median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 4.5 3.8 13 0 0
2023 4.5 4.2 18 0 0
2022 4.3 3.8 16 0 0
2021 4.9 4.3 17 0 0
2020 4.8 4.1 14 0 0
2019 2.5 2.2 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · AL · Vance

3,020 Trucking, general freight, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 27 employers in Vance, 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 MO-Saint Louis-621-YRC Freight 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 521 HOUSTON 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MAU 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chattanooga TN Cleveland Shop 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE BHM 275 FTE
STATE-SIZE Twitchell Technical Products 275 FTE
STATE-SIZE TRU 947 Riverbirch 275 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wolverine Industries 275 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercedes Benz US. International 6,181 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lear Corporation - Tuscaloosa 765 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brose Tuscaloosa` 751 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ard Logistics, LLC 563 FTE
NAT-TCR 1861 LKQ Evans Heavy Truck Parts 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR TC Recycling, LLC 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sanders Machine 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Saganing Eagles Landing Casino 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE ITW Engineered Fasteners 275 FTE
NAT-SIZE HoneywellSC09 275 FTE
NAT-SIZE IKEA #145 Orlando 275 FTE
NAT-SIZE Interstate Drywall Corp. 275 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. 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.