Manufacture of motor truck trailers · Texas

PJ Trailers Texas

Sumner, TX · ~500 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

PJ Trailers Texas runs at 258% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Manufacture of motor truck trailers workplace, earning a grade F.

PJ Trailers Texas: 8.5 TCR = 258% of Manufacture of motor truck trailers BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

PJ Trailers Texas safety composite

PJ Trailers Texas scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% 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

−4.3

2016→2017

PJ Trailers Texas injury rate improved

PJ Trailers Texas's TCR fell 4.3 from 10.7 in 2016 to 6.4 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 10.7 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=10.7 · 2017=6.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336212 · Sumner, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.5 · 258% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #31/38
  • PHOTO Load King Elk Point,…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 69 inj
  • SIZE ~500 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Load King Elk Point, South Dakota (0.0 TCR gap)

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PJ Trailers Texas in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows PJ Trailers Texas averages 8.5 TCR (258% of the Manufacture of motor truck trailers BLS benchmark).

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

PJ Trailers Texas TCR series: 2016=10.7 · 2017=6.4 · BLS 3.3

Where PJ Trailers Texas falls in its industry

474 Manufacture of motor truck tra establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 38 Manufacture of motor truck tra employers in Texas.

PJ Trailers Texas (500 employees, TCR 8.5) 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 PJ Trailers Texas
PJ Trailers Texas (500 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.6

PJ Trailers Texas has more employees than the Manufacture of motor truck trailers 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
2017 6.4 0.8 32 0 0
2016 10.7 2.3 37 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336212 · TX · Sumner

474 Manufacture of motor truck trailers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5 employers in Sumner, TX · 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 Load King Elk Point, South Dakota 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Road Gear Trucking Equipment 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR TKI Mitchell West 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Behnke Enterprises, Inc. 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Danone North America 500 FTE
STATE-SIZE Frito Lay North America (R&D) 500 FTE
STATE-SIZE Molson Coors Beverage Company 500 FTE
STATE-SIZE Channell Commercial RKW 500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Load Trail 540 FTE
CITY-NEAR Load Trail - Sumner 453 FTE
CITY-NEAR PJ Trailers Manufacturing, Inc. Sumner 451 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lamar Trailers 188 FTE
NAT-TCR Lincoln - 80 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Coyote Valley Casino 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ny646-Lpz-Ny646 Long Island Wh 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR North Park 8.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE HHG Lenoir Upholstery Plant 500 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mountain Valley Express Inc. 500 FTE
NAT-SIZE LTD Aurora (Westridge) # 7 500 FTE
NAT-SIZE MN,BEMIDJI - Medical Center Campus - Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists) 500 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: 2017, 2016. 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.