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

Akebono Brake, Glasgow Plant

Glasgow, KY · ~477 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Akebono Brake, Glasgow Plant runs at 31% 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: 1.7 TCR = 31% of Brake pads and shoes, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Akebono Brake, Glasgow Plant safety composite

Akebono Brake, Glasgow Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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

2022→2024

Akebono Brake, Glasgow Plant injury rate improved

Akebono Brake, Glasgow Plant's TCR fell 0.7 from 1.8 in 2022 to 1.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=1.8 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 1.7 · 31% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #6/19
  • PHOTO Hayes Performance Sy…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~477 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hayes Performance Systems (0.0 TCR gap)

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Akebono Brake, Glasgow Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Akebono Brake, Glasgow Plant averages 1.7 TCR (31% of the Brake pads and shoes, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Akebono Brake, Glasgow Plant TCR series: 2022=1.8 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=1.1 · BLS 5.4

Where Akebono Brake, Glasgow Plant falls in its industry

133 Brake pads and shoes, automoti establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 19 Brake pads and shoes, automoti employers in Kentucky.

Akebono Brake, Glasgow Plant (477 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 150 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Akebono Brake, Glasgow Plant
Akebono Brake, Glasgow Plant (477 employees, TCR 1.7) 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 Fatalities
2024 1.1 1.1 6 0 0
2023 2.1 1.4 11 0 0
2022 1.8 1.2 8 1 0

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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Hayes Performance Systems 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sanoh America 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Redford 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advics Manufacturing Indiana 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bendix Commercial Vehicles Systems, LLC 476 FTE
STATE-SIZE Highland Heights 480 FTE
STATE-SIZE Danville 474 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pearl Interactive Network 481 FTE
CITY-NEAR TJ Samson Community Hospital 874 FTE
CITY-NEAR Akebono Brake - Glasgow Plant 863 FTE
CITY-NEAR LSC Communications 572 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 711 460 FTE
NAT-TCR DC 82 - Arden 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Branch 3426 - Edison Branch 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Mercury Plastics 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Mukwonago Operations 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sysco Intermountain 477 FTE
NAT-SIZE PSL Plant St Lucie 477 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cambro Manufacturing 477 FTE
NAT-SIZE CR Meyer - Oshkosh 477 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.