Brake caliper assemblies, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · Kentucky

Akebono Elizabethtown

Name: Akebono Elizabethtown Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Elizabethtown, KY · ~621 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 4.6
Avg TCR: 5.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Akebono Elizabethtown runs at 85% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Brake caliper assemblies, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Akebono Elizabethtown: 4.6 TCR = 85% of Brake caliper assemblies, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Akebono Elizabethtown safety composite

Akebono Elizabethtown scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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).

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 4.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers
DART rate: F 4.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Akebono Elizabethtown: 4.2 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.98× in 2024

Akebono Elizabethtown's TCR rose 0.7 from 4.2 in 2023 to 4.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 4.6 · 85% of ind

DART 4.5 DART
RANK #16/19
PHOTO People Now, Inc./ Ce…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 59 inj
SIZE ~621 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: People Now, Inc./ Centric- COI (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Akebono Elizabethtown averages 4.6 TCR (85% of the Brake caliper assemblies, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Akebono Elizabethtown TCR series: 2023=4.2 · 2024=4.9 · BLS 5.4

Where Akebono Elizabethtown falls in its industry

133 Brake caliper assemblies, auto establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 19 Brake caliper assemblies, auto employers in Kentucky.

Akebono Elizabethtown (621 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 150 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Akebono Elizabethtown has more employees than the Brake caliper assemblies, automotive, tr median and a higher 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	4.9	4.5	30	2	0
2023	4.2	3.4	29	2	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336340 · KY · Elizabethtown

133 Brake caliper assemblies, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 130 employers in Elizabethtown, 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	People Now, Inc./ Centric- COI	CITY OF INDUSTRY, CA	4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	OTSCON, Inc.	COLUMBIA, MO	4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.	CULPEPER, VA	4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Berea - Motorwheel LLC	BETEA, KY	4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Smithfield - Middlesboro Packaged	MIDDLESBORO	621 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Warsaw, KY	WARSAW	622 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Tractor Supply Company Distribution Center 0499	FRANKLIN	622 FTE
STATE-SIZE	TreeHouse Foods Princeton, KY	PRINCETON	619 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Hardin Memorial Hospital	Elizabethtown	2,311 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Baptist Health Hardin	Elizabethtown	2,058 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Metalsa	Elizabethtown	1,807 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Etown	Elizabethtown	956 FTE
NAT-TCR	Miner - CDC Houston	Houston, TX	4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Rialto	Rialto, CA	4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Hillebrand Nursing and Rehabilitation Center	Cincinnati, OH	4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Tucson 10071	Tucson, AZ	4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	ChildServe Center	Johnston, IA	621 FTE
NAT-SIZE	CBJ Arena Management	Columbus, OH	621 FTE
NAT-SIZE	CenterWell Pharmacy - West Chester	West Chester, OH	621 FTE
NAT-SIZE	NuVasive Clinical Services Monitoring, Inc	Columbia, MD	621 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. 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.