Flatbed trailers, commercial, manufacturing · Alabama

Road Gear Trucking Equipment

Name: Road Gear Trucking Equipment Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Russellville, AL · ~43 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 8.6
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Road Gear Trucking Equipment runs at 260% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Flatbed trailers, commercial, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Road Gear Trucking Equipment: 8.6 TCR = 260% of Flatbed trailers, commercial, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Road Gear Trucking Equipment safety composite

Road Gear Trucking Equipment scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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).

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 8.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers
DART rate: F 7.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

Road Gear Trucking Equipment: 4.2 → 10.0 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 11.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.83× in 2018

Road Gear Trucking Equipment's TCR rose 5.8 from 4.2 in 2016 to 10.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 11.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336212 · Russellville, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.6 · 260% of ind

DART 7.2 DART
RANK #13/18
PHOTO TKI Mitchell West
BOOK 3y book
INJ 14 inj
SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TKI Mitchell West (0.0 TCR gap)

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8.6
RC Middlebury

8.6

What this shows Road Gear Trucking Equipment averages 8.6 TCR (260% of the Flatbed trailers, commercial, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Road Gear Trucking Equipment TCR series: 2016=4.2 · 2017=11.6 · 2018=10 · BLS 3.3

Where Road Gear Trucking Equipment falls in its industry

474 Flatbed trailers, commercial, establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 18 Flatbed trailers, commercial, employers in Alabama.

Road Gear Trucking Equipment (43 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Road Gear Trucking Equipment has fewer employees than the Flatbed trailers, commercial, manufactur 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
2018	10.0	7.2	7
2017	11.6	5.8	6
2016	4.2	4.2	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336212 · AL · Russellville

474 Flatbed trailers, commercial, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 35 employers in Russellville, AL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	TKI Mitchell West	MITCHELL, SD	8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Behnke Enterprises, Inc.	FARLEY, IA	8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Bye-Rite Trailer and Fabrication Inc.	ROBERTSDALE, AL	8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	RC Middlebury	MIDDLEBURY, IN	8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Generation Fossil Gadsden Steam Plant	GADSDEN	43 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Auburn Crew Headquarters	AUBURN	43 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Hueytown Crew Headquarters - APC	HUEYTOWN	43 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Clarke-Washington Electric Membership Corporation	JACKSON	43 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Pilgrims Russellville Complex	Russellville	1,094 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Pilgrims Pride - Central Processing	Russellville	1,028 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Innovative Hearth Products	Russellville	390 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Southern Homes Russellville	Russellville	319 FTE
NAT-TCR	Staples FC 4682	Chambersburg, PA	8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Flower City Rochester	Rochester, NY	8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Packard Health	Ann Arbor, MI	8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Holland - SP	Piedmont, SC	8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Crossroads Grants Supermarket	Princeton, WV	43 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Princeton Grants Supermarket	Princeton, WV	43 FTE
NAT-SIZE	EK Machine Powder Products	Fall River, WI	43 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Tazewell Grants Supermarket	North Tazewell, VA	43 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.