Bus bodies manufacturing · North Carolina

Thomas Built Buses

High Point, NC · ~1,467 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Thomas Built Buses runs at 189% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bus bodies manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Thomas Built Buses: 6.2 TCR = 189% of Bus bodies manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Thomas Built Buses safety composite

Thomas Built Buses scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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

−2.6

2016→2024

Thomas Built Buses injury rate improved

Thomas Built Buses's TCR fell 2.6 from 7.2 in 2016 to 4.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.2 · 2017=7.4 · 2018=6.5 · 2019=7.2 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=4.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 189% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #22/29
  • PHOTO KNAPHEIDE EQUIPMENT …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 619 inj
  • SIZE ~1,467 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: KNAPHEIDE EQUIPMENT CO - CHICAGO (0.0 TCR gap)

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Thomas Built Buses in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Thomas Built Buses averages 6.2 TCR (189% 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 TCR series: 2016=7.2 · 2017=7.4 · 2018=6.5 · 2019=7.2 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=4.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Thomas Built Buses falls in its industry

470 Bus bodies manufacturing establishments

Safer than 40% 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 #22 safest of 29 Bus bodies manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

Thomas Built Buses (1,467 employees, TCR 6.2) 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Thomas Built Buses
Thomas Built Buses (1,467 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Thomas Built Buses 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 4.7 2.2 60 1 0
2023 4.5 2.6 47 0 0
2019 7.2 3.8 116 0 0
2018 6.5 3.5 117 0 0
2017 7.4 2.9 146 2 0
2016 7.2 3.0 133 4 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 KNAPHEIDE EQUIPMENT CO - CHICAGO 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hol-Mac Corporation P3 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cardone Plant 49 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Auto Truck Charleston 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Revlon Consumer Products Corp 1,468 FTE
STATE-SIZE Taylor Morrison 1,469 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMZL : DLT1 1,465 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blue Ridge HealthCare Hospitals, Inc. 1,461 FTE
CITY-NEAR WFBMC - High Point Medical Center 1,936 FTE
CITY-NEAR CITY OF HIGH POINT 1,532 FTE
CITY-NEAR High Point Medical Center 1,370 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ralph Lauren Corporation - HPD Fulfillment Center 1,104 FTE
NAT-TCR All of Arizona 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR The Newbury Boston 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Pensacola 10623 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Corporate Glass Inc 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Arc of the Ozarks 1,467 FTE
NAT-SIZE Little Company of Mary Medical Center 1,467 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1855-ALBIR1 1,467 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orbital Sciences Corporation 1,467 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, 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.