Truck tractors, road, merchant wholesalers · Virginia

Powell's Truck & Equipment Inc

Lynchburg, VA · ~45 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Powell's Truck & Equipment Inc runs at 275% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Truck tractors, road, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Powell's Truck & Equipment Inc: 6.0 TCR = 275% of Truck tractors, road, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Powell's Truck & Equipment Inc safety composite

Powell's Truck & Equipment Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−2.4

2022→2023

Powell's Truck & Equipment Inc injury rate improved

Powell's Truck & Equipment Inc's TCR fell 2.4 from 7.2 in 2022 to 4.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 7.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=7.2 · 2023=4.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423110 · Lynchburg, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.0 · 275% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #20/24
  • PHOTO Pendleton
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pendleton (0.0 TCR gap)

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Powell's Truck & Equipment Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Powell's Truck & Equipment Inc averages 6.0 TCR (275% of the Truck tractors, road, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Powell's Truck & Equipment Inc TCR series: 2022=7.2 · 2023=4.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Powell's Truck & Equipment Inc falls in its industry

1,333 Truck tractors, road, merchant establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 24 Truck tractors, road, merchant employers in Virginia.

Powell's Truck & Equipment Inc (45 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Powell's Truck & Equipment Inc
Powell's Truck & Equipment Inc (45 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Powell's Truck & Equipment Inc has fewer employees than the Truck tractors, road, merchant wholesale median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2023 4.8 0.0 1 0 0
2022 7.2 2.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423110 · VA · Lynchburg

1,333 Truck tractors, road, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 360 employers in Lynchburg, VA · 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 Pendleton 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Truck Centers, Inc. - Springfield 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1024 RTC LUBBOCK 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 153 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE VA09S-SEL-VIRGINIA SERVICE ROOM 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE GREENSVILLE COUNTY POWER STATION 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Harrisonburg Public Utilities 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farmville Public Works 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lynchburg General Hospital 2,596 FTE
CITY-NEAR BWXT NOG Lynchburg 2,200 FTE
CITY-NEAR BWXT Nuclear Operations Group, Inc. - Lynchburg 2,180 FTE
CITY-NEAR Centra Urgent Care Forest 1,283 FTE
NAT-TCR Color Communications, LLC 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Custom Foods of America 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kalco Machine & Mfg. Co. 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR SVC-Riverside, CA-USA 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Enterprise Rent-A-Car 55ZE 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Luxfer Flemington 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lodge Lumber 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE San Pedro Base - Bld: 0398 - 15 45 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: 2023, 2022. 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.