Truck trailer paint and body repair · Pennsylvania

Trans Equipment Co., Inc.

Ephrata, PA · ~23 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
20.9
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trans Equipment Co., Inc. runs at 994% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Truck trailer paint and body repair workplace, earning a grade F.

Trans Equipment Co., Inc.: 20.9 TCR = 994% of Truck trailer paint and body repair BLS 2.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trans Equipment Co., Inc. safety composite

Trans Equipment Co., Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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).

F

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 20.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Trans Equipment Co., Inc.: 5.7 → 36.2 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 36.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.5× in 2019

Trans Equipment Co., Inc.'s TCR rose 30.5 from 5.7 in 2017 to 36.2 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811121 · Ephrata, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 20.9 · 994% of ind

  • DART 10.3 DART
  • RANK #12/12
  • PHOTO West-Mark Service Ce…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: West-Mark Service Center - Bakersfield California (5.5 TCR gap)

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Trans Equipment Co., Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trans Equipment Co., Inc. averages 20.9 TCR (994% of the Truck trailer paint and body repair BLS benchmark).

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

Trans Equipment Co., Inc. TCR series: 2017=5.7 · 2018=20.7 · 2019=36.2 · BLS 2.1

Where Trans Equipment Co., Inc. falls in its industry

277 Truck trailer paint and body r establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 12 Truck trailer paint and body r employers in Pennsylvania.

Trans Equipment Co., Inc. (23 employees, TCR 20.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Trans Equipment Co., Inc.
Trans Equipment Co., Inc. (23 employees, TCR 20.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Trans Equipment Co., Inc. has fewer employees than the Truck trailer paint and body repair median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2019 36.2 10.3 7 0 0
2018 20.7 20.7 3 1 0
2017 5.7 5.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811121 · PA · Ephrata

277 Truck trailer paint and body repair employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 75 employers in Ephrata, PA · 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 West-Mark Service Center - Bakersfield California 15.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR PAN AMERICAN BODY SHOP - CERTIFIED 15.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Broadway Body Shop of New Ulm 15.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dejana Truck and Utility Equipment - Mid-Atlantic 14.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mt. Parnell Fisheries Co. 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hickory Run Energy, LLC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE CPV Fairview LLC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Valley Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. - Corporate Office 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ephrata Community Hospital 986 FTE
CITY-NEAR Four Seasons Produce, Inc. 553 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2340 366 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2340 354 FTE
NAT-TCR iFLY Austin 20.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Thigpen Trucking,INC 20.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 165100-Midlothian Po 20.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Bos-Ground Ops 20.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE US NV Reno 8645 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE 40146 - Capstone Sysco Boston 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Refuse Division - Keehi Transfer Station 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE StorterChilds Printing 23 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.