Calipers, brake, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · South Carolina

Akebono Brake

West Columbia, SC · ~668 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 runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Calipers, brake, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Akebono Brake: 1.7 TCR = 32% of Calipers, brake, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Akebono Brake safety composite

Akebono Brake scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

−1.8

2017→2019

Akebono Brake injury rate improved

Akebono Brake's TCR fell 1.8 from 2.5 in 2017 to 0.7 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.5 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.5 · 2018=2.0 · 2019=0.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336340 · West Columbia, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.7 · 32% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #3/6
  • PHOTO ZF Active Safety US …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~668 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ZF Active Safety US Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Akebono Brake in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Akebono Brake averages 1.7 TCR (32% of the Calipers, brake, 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 TCR series: 2017=2.5 · 2018=2 · 2019=0.7 · BLS 5.4

Where Akebono Brake falls in its industry

133 Calipers, brake, automotive, t establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 6 Calipers, brake, automotive, t employers in South Carolina.

Akebono Brake (668 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
Akebono Brake (668 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 has more employees than the Calipers, brake, automotive, truck, and 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
2019 0.7 0.7 3 0 0
2018 2.0 1.6 13 1 0
2017 2.5 2.4 20 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336340 · SC · West Columbia

133 Calipers, brake, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 171 employers in West Columbia, SC · 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 ZF Active Safety US Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR FM-Glasgow 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sanoh America 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Redford 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE House of Raeford 663 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cheraw II 663 FTE
STATE-SIZE MAHLE Behr Charleston 673 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kershaw Health Hospital 663 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lexington Medical Center 4,128 FTE
CITY-NEAR SC-02 4,124 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - CAE1 2,755 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CAE1 2,722 FTE
NAT-TCR Tore Electric Co. 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR TownePlace Suites - Panama City 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 1083 Waterloo-Geneva Rd. 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR HoneywellMO26 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Walker Baptist Medical Center 668 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kawneer Commercial Windows, LLC 668 FTE
NAT-SIZE TECO Plaza 668 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sherer Cottage 668 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: 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.