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In RT-DETR, these conditions can weaken cross-scale structural cues, reduce the ranking of small-object candidates, and amplify localization errors under strict IoU criteria. We hypothesize that coordinated intervention at feature fusion, query allocation, and box regression can alleviate this coupled failure process without enlarging the decoder-query budget. Accordingly, DRQ-RTDETR integrates degradation-aware detail recovery, small-object-guided query selection, and scale-adaptive geometric refinement. Experiments on a real household gas facility dataset containing 21,813 images and 47,169 instances across eight safety-related categories show that DRQ-RTDETR improves mAP from 0.6168 to 0.6576, mAP50 from 0.7909 to 0.8124, mAP75 from 0.6702 to 0.7136, and mAPsmall from 0.4639 to 0.5247 relative to RT-DETR. 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