Truck trailer manufacturing · Idaho

Western trailers

Boise, ID · ~270 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Western trailers runs at 425% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Truck trailer manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Western trailers: 14.0 TCR = 425% of Truck trailer manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Western trailers safety composite

Western trailers scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

−1.6

2016→2018

Western trailers injury rate improved

Western trailers's TCR fell 1.6 from 15.4 in 2016 to 13.9 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 15.4 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=15.4 · 2017=12.7 · 2018=13.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336212 · Boise, ID ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 14.0 · 425% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #13/16
  • PHOTO Fruehauf Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 80 inj
  • SIZE ~270 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fruehauf Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Western trailers in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Western trailers averages 14.0 TCR (425% of the Truck trailer manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Western trailers TCR series: 2016=15.4 · 2017=12.7 · 2018=13.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Western trailers falls in its industry

474 Truck trailer manufacturing establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Idaho alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 16 Truck trailer manufacturing employers in Idaho.

Western trailers (270 employees, TCR 14.0) 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 Western trailers
Western trailers (270 employees, TCR 14.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Western trailers has more 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
2018 13.9 4.1 34 0 0
2017 12.7 3.5 20 9 0
2016 15.4 6.0 26 15 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336212 · ID · Boise

474 Truck trailer manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,774 rated employers in Idaho with headcount on file · 581 employers in Boise, ID · 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 Fruehauf Inc. 14.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Doonan Specialized Trailer, LLC. 14.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR PALMER MACHINE WORKS, Inc. 13.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR TRAIL-EZE Corsica 13.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE ST. MARIES PLYWOOD, POTLATCH LAND AND LUMBER, LLC 270 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 5869 270 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stone Ridge Contracting, LLC 269 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2861 271 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Boise Medical Center (Including MSTI) 10,034 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1-Boise Main Site 6,035 FTE
CITY-NEAR Micron Boise Site 5,184 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center 3,869 FTE
NAT-TCR Home Oxygen & DME 14.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Frattallone's Ace Hardware-New Hope 14.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Whip's Carpentry US LLC 14.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 15 Salem 14.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mary Wade 270 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hagerstown (Mdhag) 270 FTE
NAT-SIZE Canton (Ohcan) 270 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pacesetters, Inc. 270 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.