Semi-trailer manufacturing · North Carolina

Saertex USA, LLC

Huntersville, NC · ~210 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Saertex USA, LLC runs at 124% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Semi-trailer manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Saertex USA, LLC: 4.1 TCR = 124% of Semi-trailer manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Saertex USA, LLC safety composite

Saertex USA, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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)
C 4.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

Saertex USA, LLC: 7.7 → 94.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 94.1 TCR · DART/TCR 11.48× in 2024

Saertex USA, LLC's TCR rose 86.4 from 7.7 in 2018 to 94.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 11.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336212 · Huntersville, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 124% of ind

  • DART 47.1 DART
  • RANK #3/7
  • PHOTO Lexington
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~210 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lexington (0.0 TCR gap)

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Saertex USA, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Saertex USA, LLC averages 4.1 TCR (124% of the Semi-trailer manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Saertex USA, LLC TCR series: 2018=7.7 · 2019=3.2 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=1 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=8.6 · 2024=94.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Saertex USA, LLC falls in its industry

474 Semi-trailer manufacturing establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 7 Semi-trailer manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

Saertex USA, LLC (210 employees, TCR 4.1) 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 Saertex USA, LLC
Saertex USA, LLC (210 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Saertex USA, LLC has more employees than the Semi-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 94.1 47.1 2 0 0
2023 8.6 4.3 10 0 0
2022 2.3 0.8 3 0 0
2021 1.0 0.5 2 0 0
2020 1.8 0.6 3 0 0
2019 3.2 1.9 5 0 0
2018 7.7 5.8 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336212 · NC · Huntersville

474 Semi-trailer manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 117 employers in Huntersville, NC · 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 Lexington 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Somerset Welding & Steel Company Inc.- Trailer Plant 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Highmore 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Madill Pettijohn Plant 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Donley's Concrete Group LLC 210 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wachs Services Belmont 210 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electrical Workforce Solutions, LLC 210 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clariant Corporation Monroe Road Regional Headquarters 210 FTE
CITY-NEAR McGuire Nuclear 1,045 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Huntersville Medical Center 1,002 FTE
CITY-NEAR Huntersville Field Support Center 929 FTE
CITY-NEAR Metrolina Greenhouses - Huntersville NC 725 FTE
NAT-TCR FreshEdge, LLC 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Lakes Gas Co 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Scholle IPN Atlanta Corporation 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Greentree Lumber 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Caritas Management Corporation 210 FTE
NAT-SIZE Care One at Millbury 210 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kith Furniture LLC 210 FTE
NAT-SIZE Systex Products Corporation 300 210 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.