Hitches, trailer, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · Ohio

Aero Industries - Kent Facility

Name: Aero Industries - Kent Facility Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Kent, OH · ~23 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

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

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The verdict

Aero Industries - Kent Facility runs at 43% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Hitches, trailer, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Aero Industries - Kent Facility: 2.3 TCR = 43% of Hitches, trailer, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Aero Industries - Kent Facility safety composite

Aero Industries - Kent Facility scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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).

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers
DART rate: F 4.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Aero Industries - Kent Facility: 0.0 → 4.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 4.7 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2018

Aero Industries - Kent Facility's TCR rose 4.7 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.7 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336390 · Kent, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 2.3 · 43% of ind

DART 4.7 DART
RANK #29/91
PHOTO Spartanburg Schedl A…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Spartanburg Schedl Automotive System Service Lp (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.4
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2.3
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2.3
Webasto Roof S

2.3

What this shows Aero Industries - Kent Facility averages 2.3 TCR (43% of the Hitches, trailer, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Aero Industries - Kent Facility TCR series: 2016=0 · 2018=4.7 · BLS 5.4

Where Aero Industries - Kent Facility falls in its industry

772 Hitches, trailer, automotive, establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 91 Hitches, trailer, automotive, employers in Ohio.

Aero Industries - Kent Facility (23 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Aero Industries - Kent Facility has fewer employees than the Hitches, trailer, automotive, truck, and median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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	4.7	4.7	1	0	0
2016	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336390 · OH · Kent

772 Hitches, trailer, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 188 employers in Kent, OH · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Spartanburg Schedl Automotive System Service Lp	DUNCAN, SC	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Arvin Sango, Incorporated	SAN ANTONIO, TX	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Sanden International (U.S.A.) Inc	WYLIE, TX	2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Webasto Roof Systems Inc.	PLYMOUTH, MI	2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	MID EAST PRODUCTION LLC	TIFFIN	23 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Schlessman Seed Co	MILAN	23 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Lake County Nursery	MADISON	23 FTE
STATE-SIZE	LCN Holdings Inc dba Lake County Nursery	MADISON	23 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CARTER LUMBER CORPORATE OFFICE 600	Kent	786 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 3722	Kent	410 FTE
CITY-NEAR	3722	Kent	396 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Podnar Plastics, Inc.	Kent	324 FTE
NAT-TCR	Evergreen Home Healthcare-Westminster	Westminster, CO	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	281 West Netherwood Street	Oregon, WI	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Big Lots Store #1037 KANSAS CITY, MO	Kansas City, MO	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Brookdale North Chandler	Chandler, AZ	2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	J.T. Wein, Inc.	Opelousas, LA	23 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Mercy Family Clinic - Dermatology Center	Mason City, IA	23 FTE
NAT-SIZE	York Home Care	York, PA	23 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Dahm Brothers, Inc.	Fort Wayne, IN	23 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, 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.