Assembly line rebuilding of automotive and truck gasoline engines · Ohio

1898 Lkq Cvc

Kettering, OH · ~62 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1898 Lkq Cvc runs at 42% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Assembly line rebuilding of automotive and truck gasoline engines workplace, earning a grade A.

1898 Lkq Cvc: 2.3 TCR = 42% of Assembly line rebuilding of automotive and truck gasoline engines BLS 5.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1898 Lkq Cvc safety composite

1898 Lkq Cvc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−0.5

2022→2024

1898 Lkq Cvc injury rate improved

1898 Lkq Cvc's TCR fell 0.5 from 3.7 in 2022 to 3.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=3.7 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336310 · Kettering, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 2.3 · 42% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/19
  • PHOTO Schaefffler Group US…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~62 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Schaefffler Group USA Inc. - Fort Mill 2 (0.0 TCR gap)

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1898 Lkq Cvc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1898 Lkq Cvc averages 2.3 TCR (42% of the Assembly line rebuilding of automotive and truck gasoline engines BLS benchmark).

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

1898 Lkq Cvc TCR series: 2022=3.7 · 2023=0 · 2024=3.2 · BLS 5.4

Where 1898 Lkq Cvc falls in its industry

221 Assembly line rebuilding of au establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 19 Assembly line rebuilding of au employers in Ohio.

1898 Lkq Cvc (62 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 165 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate 1898 Lkq Cvc
1898 Lkq Cvc (62 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 165 employees and a TCR of 2.9

1898 Lkq Cvc has fewer employees than the Assembly line rebuilding of automotive a median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2024 3.2 0.0 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.7 1.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336310 · OH · Kettering

221 Assembly line rebuilding of automotive and truck gasoline engines employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 42 employers in Kettering, OH · 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 Schaefffler Group USA Inc. - Fort Mill 2 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Federal-Mogul Powertrain Systems, LLC, dba Tenneco 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dapco Industries 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MAHLE Engine Components USA, INC. - Morristown 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Croton 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Colerain Operations Center 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Columbus NE Svc Ctr 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE 916-NiSource-Mansfield OH-Heartland Op Ctr 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kettering Medical Center 5,259 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3638-K 3,317 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASHN 1,048 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alternate Solutions 1,012 FTE
NAT-TCR Blk Electric 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR R+D Custom Automation 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Heritage Plastics Louisville 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Memphis Oilseeds 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE RRSC New York 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE RRSC Tampa 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flomatic Corporation 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE NV Energy-Valmy 62 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: 2024, 2023, 2022. 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.