Truck & Trailer Manufacturing · South Dakota

Trail-Eze Inc - Main Site Mitchell

Mitchell, SD · ~55 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trail-Eze Inc - Main Site Mitchell runs at 275% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Truck & Trailer Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Trail-Eze Inc - Main Site Mitchell: 9.1 TCR = 275% of Truck & Trailer Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trail-Eze Inc - Main Site Mitchell safety composite

Trail-Eze Inc - Main Site Mitchell scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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

Trail-Eze Inc - Main Site Mitchell: 5.5 → 12.7 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 12.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2017

Trail-Eze Inc - Main Site Mitchell's TCR rose 7.3 from 5.5 in 2016 to 12.7 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336212 · Mitchell, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.1 · 275% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #12/19
  • PHOTO Magic Tilt Trailers,…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~55 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Magic Tilt Trailers, Inc- Edgewater (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trail-Eze Inc - Main Site Mitchell in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trail-Eze Inc - Main Site Mitchell averages 9.1 TCR (275% of the Truck & Trailer Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Trail-Eze Inc - Main Site Mitchell TCR series: 2016=5.5 · 2017=12.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Trail-Eze Inc - Main Site Mitchell falls in its industry

474 Truck & Trailer Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 19 Truck & Trailer Manufacturing employers in South Dakota.

Trail-Eze Inc - Main Site Mitchell (55 employees, TCR 9.1) 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 Trail-Eze Inc - Main Site Mitchell
Trail-Eze Inc - Main Site Mitchell (55 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Trail-Eze Inc - Main Site Mitchell has fewer employees than the Truck & Trailer Manufacturing 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2017 12.7 0.0 7 0 0
2016 5.5 1.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336212 · SD · Mitchell

474 Truck & Trailer Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 72 employers in Mitchell, SD · 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 Magic Tilt Trailers, Inc- Edgewater 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR MAC LTT, Inc 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR LGS Pace, LLC.-IN 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wabash Cadiz 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Highmark Erectors 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Guarantee Roofing & Sheet Metal of SD, Inc. 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Novita Nutrition, LLC 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Showplace Wood Products - Beresford 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR Avera Queen of Peace Hospital 376 FTE
CITY-NEAR TKI Mitchell 353 FTE
CITY-NEAR TKI Mitchell West 343 FTE
CITY-NEAR Muth Electric, Inc. 318 FTE
NAT-TCR Giant Distribution Center 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Western Tear-Off and Disposal, Inc. 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Skyline Corporation 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Manchester (Nhman) 9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 3637 Republic Services Waycross 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Keystone Display, Inc. 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Dixon LLC 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Location 6 55 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: 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.