Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Reading Truck Body, LLC

Reading, PA · ~622 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Reading Truck Body, LLC runs at 177% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Reading Truck Body, LLC: 5.8 TCR = 177% of Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Reading Truck Body, LLC safety composite

Reading Truck Body, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

−3.1

2016→2024

Reading Truck Body, LLC injury rate improved

Reading Truck Body, LLC's TCR fell 3.1 from 8.3 in 2016 to 5.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 9.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.3 · 2017=9.2 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=5.2 · 2020=5.0 · 2022=4.5 · 2024=5.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336211 · Reading, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 177% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #31/49
  • PHOTO PJ's Truck Bodies & …
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 261 inj
  • SIZE ~622 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PJ's Truck Bodies & Equipment Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Reading Truck Body, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Reading Truck Body, LLC averages 5.8 TCR (177% of the Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Reading Truck Body, LLC TCR series: 2016=8.3 · 2017=9.2 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=5.2 · 2020=5 · 2022=4.5 · 2024=5.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Reading Truck Body, LLC falls in its industry

470 Truck bodies and cabs manufact establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 49 Truck bodies and cabs manufact employers in Pennsylvania.

Reading Truck Body, LLC (622 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Reading Truck Body, LLC
Reading Truck Body, LLC (622 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Reading Truck Body, LLC has more employees than the Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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 5.1 3.9 45 2 0
2022 4.5 2.8 25 2 0
2020 5.0 2.7 20 6 0
2019 5.2 2.2 37 0 0
2018 3.5 1.3 24 0 0
2017 9.2 6.9 62 2 0
2016 8.3 6.5 48 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336211 · PA · Reading

470 Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 303 employers in Reading, PA · 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 PJ's Truck Bodies & Equipment Company 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wiskerchen Truck & Equipment LLC 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Curbtender, Inc. 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Versalift Silva, LLC dba Versalift Forestry 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE AC Store Sales - United States 622 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mercy Home Health 622 FTE
STATE-SIZE Songer Services Incorporated 621 FTE
STATE-SIZE Building 3 623 FTE
CITY-NEAR READING HOSPITAL 5,693 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAO : Reading 2,203 FTE
CITY-NEAR A077 - Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center 1,764 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - TEN1 1,261 FTE
NAT-TCR Leesburg FL 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Theisen's of Maquoketa 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Wiskerchen Truck & Equipment LLC 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR VSPOne Sacramento 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE St. Joseph MO DAP 622 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tower Eight Staffing Solutions dba Labor For Hire - Lake Worth 622 FTE
NAT-SIZE Azphx - Phoenix Air Gateway 622 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1855-WIMIL8 622 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, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.