Special purpose highway vehicle (e.g., firefighting vehicles) assembling on purchased chassis · Alabama

Schwarze

Huntsville, AL · ~186 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Schwarze runs at 48% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Special purpose highway vehicle (e.g., firefighting vehicles) assembling on purchased chassis workplace, earning a grade A.

Schwarze: 1.6 TCR = 48% of Special purpose highway vehicle (e.g., firefighting vehicles) assembling on purchased chassis BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Schwarze safety composite

Schwarze scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

−1.2

2016→2019

Schwarze injury rate improved

Schwarze's TCR fell 1.2 from 2.2 in 2016 to 1.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 2.2 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.2 · 2017=1.1 · 2018=2.1 · 2019=1.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336211 · Huntsville, AL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 48% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #1/16
  • PHOTO BrandFX, LLC - Fort …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~186 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BrandFX, LLC - Fort Worth (0.0 TCR gap)

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Schwarze in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Schwarze averages 1.6 TCR (48% of the Special purpose highway vehicle (e.g., firefighting vehicles) assembling on purchased chassis BLS benchmark).

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

Schwarze TCR series: 2016=2.2 · 2017=1.1 · 2018=2.1 · 2019=1 · BLS 3.3

Where Schwarze falls in its industry

470 Special purpose highway vehicl establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 16 Special purpose highway vehicl employers in Alabama.

Schwarze (186 employees, TCR 1.6) 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Schwarze
Schwarze (186 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Schwarze has more employees than the Special purpose highway vehicle (e.g., f median and a lower 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
2019 1.0 0.5 2 0 0
2018 2.1 1.0 4 0 0
2017 1.1 0.0 2 0 0
2016 2.2 0.5 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336211 · AL · Huntsville

470 Special purpose highway vehicle (e.g., firefighting vehicles) assembling on purchased chassis employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 454 employers in Huntsville, AL · 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 BrandFX, LLC - Fort Worth 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spartan Fire - Brandon 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR FORMA LLC 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR MG SWI 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE CRANEWORKS, INC 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE G&G Steel 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE Decatur AL 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE Leonardo DRS-Huntsville, AL Facilities 186 FTE
CITY-NEAR AL004 2,929 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dynetics A Leidos Company 2,463 FTE
CITY-NEAR Leidos - Dynetics 2,051 FTE
CITY-NEAR Toyota Motor Mfg of Alabama 1,874 FTE
NAT-TCR Rineco Transport 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR NDX Continental 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Buchanan High School 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 1831 W. Jefferson 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE JMF Co inc 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wallace Hardware Co Inc 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE Exide Technologies-Fort Smith 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pacific Coast Sales and Service, Inc. 186 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: 2019, 2018, 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.