Truck trailer manufacturing · Florida

Petersen Industries, Inc.

Lake Wales, FL · ~135 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Petersen Industries, Inc. runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Truck trailer manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Petersen Industries, Inc.: 2.7 TCR = 82% of Truck trailer manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Petersen Industries, Inc. safety composite

Petersen Industries, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% 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

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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

−6.0

2019→2024

Petersen Industries, Inc. injury rate improved

Petersen Industries, Inc.'s TCR fell 6.0 from 6.7 in 2019 to 0.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 6.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=6.7 · 2023=0.8 · 2024=0.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336212 · Lake Wales, FL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 82% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #2/11
  • PHOTO Pitts Enterprises, I…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~135 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pitts Enterprises, Inc. DBA Pitts Trailers (0.0 TCR gap)

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Petersen Industries, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Petersen Industries, Inc. averages 2.7 TCR (82% of the Truck trailer manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Petersen Industries, Inc. TCR series: 2019=6.7 · 2023=0.8 · 2024=0.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Petersen Industries, Inc. falls in its industry

474 Truck trailer manufacturing establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 11 Truck trailer manufacturing employers in Florida.

Petersen Industries, Inc. (135 employees, TCR 2.7) 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 Petersen Industries, Inc.
Petersen Industries, Inc. (135 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Petersen Industries, Inc. has more employees than the Truck trailer manufacturing 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 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2023 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2019 6.7 3.0 4 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336212 · FL · Lake Wales

474 Truck trailer manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 66 employers in Lake Wales, FL · 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 Pitts Enterprises, Inc. DBA Pitts Trailers 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Le Mars 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Tex Trailer Manufacturing, LLC. - Mt Pleasant 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Great Dane Jonesboro 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pine Forest Complex 135 FTE
STATE-SIZE Page Mechanical Group Inc. 135 FTE
STATE-SIZE 103572 - Selmon Expressway Western Extension 135 FTE
STATE-SIZE Roberts and Roberts, Inc. 135 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oakley Transport 821 FTE
CITY-NEAR Florida's Natural Lake Wales 640 FTE
CITY-NEAR AdventHealth Lake Wales 455 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 859 355 FTE
NAT-TCR Carolina Stone Distributors 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Laurens 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Rosscrete Roofing, Inc. 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Kitchen South 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pure Power Contractors, LLC 135 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arlington Care Center 135 FTE
NAT-SIZE USA Houston 17307 Pine Cut 135 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jet Midwest 135 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, 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.