Dump trailer manufacturing · Mississippi

PALMER MACHINE WORKS, Inc.

Amory, MS · ~20 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

PALMER MACHINE WORKS, Inc. runs at 421% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Dump trailer manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

PALMER MACHINE WORKS, Inc.: 13.9 TCR = 421% of Dump trailer manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

PALMER MACHINE WORKS, Inc. safety composite

PALMER MACHINE WORKS, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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).

D

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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%).

Rising injury rate

PALMER MACHINE WORKS, Inc.: 5.9 → 21.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 21.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

PALMER MACHINE WORKS, Inc.'s TCR rose 16.1 from 5.9 in 2023 to 21.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336212 · Amory, MS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.9 · 421% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P9
  • PHOTO TRAIL-EZE Corsica
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TRAIL-EZE Corsica (0.0 TCR gap)

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PALMER MACHINE WORKS, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows PALMER MACHINE WORKS, Inc. averages 13.9 TCR (421% of the Dump trailer manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

PALMER MACHINE WORKS, Inc. TCR series: 2023=5.9 · 2024=21.9 · BLS 3.3

Where PALMER MACHINE WORKS, Inc. falls in its industry

474 Dump trailer manufacturing establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
PALMER MACHINE WORKS, Inc. (20 employees, TCR 13.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate PALMER MACHINE WORKS, Inc.
PALMER MACHINE WORKS, Inc. (20 employees, TCR 13.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.6

PALMER MACHINE WORKS, Inc. has fewer employees than the Dump trailer manufacturing median and a higher 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 21.9 0.0 4 0 0
2023 5.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336212 · MS · Amory

474 Dump trailer manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 26 employers in Amory, MS · 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 TRAIL-EZE Corsica 13.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dragon ESP Akron 13.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Western trailers 14.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fruehauf Inc. 14.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sanderson Farms Laurel Hatchery 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Three Way Gin 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Singing River Electric Cooperative - Sand Hill Office 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE RC Construction Greenwood 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monroe Health Services, Inc 449 FTE
CITY-NEAR WHSE 02 322 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 118 289 FTE
CITY-NEAR 118 267 FTE
NAT-TCR Braham Area High School 13.9 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Kokomo 13.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - XCV5 13.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Olson Technologies 13.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stoneledge Furniture LLC- Redding 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE CA-Rancho Vista Sub Station 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stoneledge Furniture LLC- Stockton 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hart Supply 20 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.