Independent recognition validates what SafeRack customers already count on: industry-leading safety, on-time delivery, and quality on every loading rack and fall protection project.
SafeRack’s parent company, SixAxis, LLC, has been named Operational Team of the Year by private equity owner MiddleGround Capital — the firm’s most prestigious portfolio-wide honor. Presented at MiddleGround’s 2026 Operations Conference, the award benchmarks every operating company across MiddleGround’s portfolio of roughly 18 businesses and 190+ plants on safety, quality, on-time delivery, gross margin, and labor efficiency. SixAxis came out on top.
For the operations, safety, and engineering professionals who specify SafeRack truck loading platforms, railcar gangways, fall protection cages, and turnkey access solutions, the award is independent confirmation of the manufacturing rigor behind every order.
Why this matters to SafeRack customers
- TRIR: 0.00 vs. an industry standard of 3.10 — placing SafeRack’s plants among the safest manufacturing environments in the U.S.
- On-time delivery: 97.3% vs. an industry standard near 83% for build-to-order manufacturing (95%+ is considered world-class). Project schedules hold. Plant turnarounds stay on track.
- 98% domestic sourcing with built-in redundancy — zero raw-material “brown-outs” in several years.
Both production facilities are ISO 14001 and SHARP certified. Andrews, S.C. is also ISO 9001 certified.
How SafeRack delivers it
Every SafeRack solution is built inside the SixAxis Production System (SPS) — a proprietary operational playbook with safety, quality, and morale as its foundation, and continuous improvement as a company-wide mindset. Every department completes at least one Kaizen project per month, governed by a dedicated continuous-improvement team formed in 2022.
“We practice what we preach as a leading provider of safety solutions. Our own safety record demonstrates our dedication to achieving world-class operational safety in U.S. manufacturing. That’s not marketing — that’s continuous improvement as a mindset, every department, every day.”
— Doug Odum, Chief Operating Officer, SixAxis
SafeRack’s Regional Area Managers are the on-the-ground experts who guide industrial and commercial teams through site evaluation, design, specification, and installation — for SafeRack loading racks and fall protection, plus SafeRack’s ErectaStep modular access platforms and stairs, YellowGate self-closing safety gates, and RollaStep mobile platforms.
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