Brake pads and shoes, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · Kentucky

Akebono Brake - Glasgow Plant

Name: Akebono Brake - Glasgow Plant Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Glasgow, KY · ~863 workers · 4 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

Akebono Brake - Glasgow Plant runs at 43% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Brake pads and shoes, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Akebono Brake - Glasgow Plant: 2.3 TCR = 43% of Brake pads and shoes, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Akebono Brake - Glasgow Plant safety composite

Akebono Brake - Glasgow Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% 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).

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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

−0.7

2017→2020

Akebono Brake - Glasgow Plant injury rate improved

Akebono Brake - Glasgow Plant's TCR fell 0.7 from 2.4 in 2017 to 1.7 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 2.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.4 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336340 · Glasgow, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 2.3 · 43% of ind

DART 1.0 DART
RANK #9/19
PHOTO Meritor Heavy Vehicl…
BOOK 4y book
INJ 65 inj
SIZE ~863 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (USA), Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nissin Brake G

2.4
Home Ave

2.4
This site

2.3
Meritor Heavy

2.3
ITT Novi

2.3

What this shows Akebono Brake - Glasgow Plant averages 2.3 TCR (43% of the Brake pads and shoes, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Akebono Brake - Glasgow Plant TCR series: 2017=2.4 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=1.7 · BLS 5.4

Where Akebono Brake - Glasgow Plant falls in its industry

133 Brake pads and shoes, automoti establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 19 Brake pads and shoes, automoti employers in Kentucky.

Akebono Brake - Glasgow Plant (863 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 150 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Akebono Brake - Glasgow Plant has more employees than the Brake pads and shoes, automotive, truck, median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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
2020	1.7	1.0	8	1
2019	2.3	1.9	14	3
2018	2.8	2.1	21	6
2017	2.4	1.5	22	7

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336340 · KY · Glasgow

133 Brake pads and shoes, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 66 employers in Glasgow, KY · 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	Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (USA), Inc	FRANKLIN, KY	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	ITT Novi	NOVI, MI	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Nissin Brake Georgia	ROCK SPRING, GA	2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Home Ave	AKRON, OH	2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	AMZL : DKY1	LOUISVILLE	859 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Pella Corporation	MURRAY	858 FTE
STATE-SIZE	RCV	HANSON	858 FTE
STATE-SIZE	TJ Samson Community Hospital	GLASGOW	874 FTE
CITY-NEAR	LSC Communications	Glasgow	572 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Akebono Brake, Glasgow Plant	Glasgow	477 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 711	Glasgow	460 FTE
CITY-NEAR	711	Glasgow	431 FTE
NAT-TCR	Printing	Nashville, TN	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Ward Leonard - TX	Houston, TX	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Runnings of Redwood Falls	Redwood Falls, MN	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	VAM USA Miller Rd.	Houston, TX	2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Newton Correctional Facility	Newton, IA	863 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Herbalife HIMWS	Winston-Salem, NC	863 FTE
NAT-SIZE	N&L Farm Labor Services Inc	Shafter, CA	863 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Needham	Needham, MA	863 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.