Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing · Kansas

VT Hackney, Inc.

Independence, KS · ~186 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

VT Hackney, Inc. runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

VT Hackney, Inc.: 6.3 TCR = 192% of Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

VT Hackney, Inc. safety composite

VT Hackney, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 39%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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

−3.0

2016→2018

VT Hackney, Inc. injury rate improved

VT Hackney, Inc.'s TCR fell 3.0 from 7.4 in 2016 to 4.4 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.4 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.4 · 2017=7.2 · 2018=4.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336211 · Independence, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 192% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #8/10
  • PHOTO BrandFX, LLC - Pocah…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~186 FTE

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

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VT Hackney, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows VT Hackney, Inc. averages 6.3 TCR (192% of the Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

VT Hackney, Inc. TCR series: 2016=7.4 · 2017=7.2 · 2018=4.4 · BLS 3.3

Where VT Hackney, Inc. falls in its industry

470 Truck bodies and cabs manufact establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 10 Truck bodies and cabs manufact employers in Kansas.

VT Hackney, Inc. (186 employees, TCR 6.3) 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 VT Hackney, Inc.
VT Hackney, Inc. (186 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5

VT Hackney, Inc. has more employees than the Truck bodies and cabs 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
2018 4.4 1.5 9 0 0
2017 7.2 4.1 14 0 0
2016 7.4 4.5 13 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336211 · KS · Independence

470 Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 27 employers in Independence, KS · 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 - Pocahontas 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Auto Truck Colorado Springs 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR GapVax 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR KTH Leesburg Products LLC 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Marel, Inc. Lenexa 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shor-Line 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yingling Aviation LLC 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE Republic Co Hospital 186 FTE
CITY-NEAR Textron Aviation - Independence 520 FTE
CITY-NEAR Standard Motor Products 356 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2893 263 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2893 257 FTE
NAT-TCR Mary Wade 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Springfield (Extended) (Mospe) 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Baldwin (Wibal) 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR II - Central Islip CDC/CSC 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Crane Interiors Inc 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE NEJ, Inc. Waterbury 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE De Nora Tech Chardon 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE United Milwaukee Scrap 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: 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.