Bus bodies manufacturing · North Carolina

Thomas Built Buses (C2)

High Point, NC · ~931 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Thomas Built Buses (C2) runs at 181% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bus bodies manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Thomas Built Buses (C2): 6.0 TCR = 181% of Bus bodies manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Thomas Built Buses (C2) safety composite

Thomas Built Buses (C2) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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

−1.0

2023→2024

Thomas Built Buses (C2) injury rate improved

Thomas Built Buses (C2)'s TCR fell 1.0 from 6.5 in 2023 to 5.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=6.5 · 2024=5.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336211 · High Point, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 181% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #21/29
  • PHOTO MG MPD
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 139 inj
  • SIZE ~931 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MG MPD (0.0 TCR gap)

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Thomas Built Buses (C2) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Thomas Built Buses (C2) averages 6.0 TCR (181% of the Bus bodies manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Thomas Built Buses (C2) TCR series: 2023=6.5 · 2024=5.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Thomas Built Buses (C2) falls in its industry

470 Bus bodies manufacturing establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 29 Bus bodies manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

Thomas Built Buses (C2) (931 employees, TCR 6.0) 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Thomas Built Buses (C2)
Thomas Built Buses (C2) (931 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Thomas Built Buses (C2) has more employees than the Bus bodies 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 5.5 3.3 72 0 0
2023 6.5 3.5 67 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336211 · NC · High Point

470 Bus bodies manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 243 employers in High Point, 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 MG MPD 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR CTM - Dodge Center 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Way Trucks - Industrial 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fort Miller FAB3 Corp. 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wix Allen Plant 931 FTE
STATE-SIZE ATI Specialty Materials - Monroe 930 FTE
STATE-SIZE Huntersville Field Support Center 929 FTE
STATE-SIZE GREENSBORO_1441334 934 FTE
CITY-NEAR WFBMC - High Point Medical Center 1,936 FTE
CITY-NEAR CITY OF HIGH POINT 1,532 FTE
CITY-NEAR Thomas Built Buses 1,467 FTE
CITY-NEAR High Point Medical Center 1,370 FTE
NAT-TCR Berryville Graphics 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Bahr Electric LLC 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Syosset 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Womack Sanitation 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Edwards Lifesciences Technology Sarl 931 FTE
NAT-SIZE Osceola Food, LLC. 931 FTE
NAT-SIZE NuVasive, Inc 931 FTE
NAT-SIZE Enrico Fermi Power Plant 2 931 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. 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.