Trailer hitches, motor vehicle, manufacturing · Nebraska

Automatic Equipment/Blue Ox

Pender, NE · ~143 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Automatic Equipment/Blue Ox runs at 86% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Trailer hitches, motor vehicle, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Automatic Equipment/Blue Ox: 4.7 TCR = 86% of Trailer hitches, motor vehicle, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Automatic Equipment/Blue Ox safety composite

Automatic Equipment/Blue Ox scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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).

D

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.8

2016→2018

Automatic Equipment/Blue Ox injury rate improved

Automatic Equipment/Blue Ox's TCR fell 4.8 from 9.1 in 2016 to 4.2 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 9.1 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.1 · 2017=0.7 · 2018=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336390 · Pender, NE AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.7 · 86% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #9/11
  • PHOTO N-Fab
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~143 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: N-Fab (0.0 TCR gap)

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Automatic Equipment/Blue Ox in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Automatic Equipment/Blue Ox averages 4.7 TCR (86% of the Trailer hitches, motor vehicle, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Automatic Equipment/Blue Ox TCR series: 2016=9.1 · 2017=0.7 · 2018=4.2 · BLS 5.4

Where Automatic Equipment/Blue Ox falls in its industry

772 Trailer hitches, motor vehicle establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 11 Trailer hitches, motor vehicle employers in Nebraska.

Automatic Equipment/Blue Ox (143 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Automatic Equipment/Blue Ox
Automatic Equipment/Blue Ox (143 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Automatic Equipment/Blue Ox has fewer employees than the Trailer hitches, motor vehicle, manufact median and a higher 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 4.2 2.1 6 0 0
2017 0.7 0.7 1 0 0
2016 9.1 4.5 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336390 · NE · Pender

772 Trailer hitches, motor vehicle, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 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 N-Fab 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Metal Fibers, Inc. 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Superior Industries Fayetteville 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR TORKLIFT INTERNATIONAL INC 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE West Point Dairy Products, LLC 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE Community Action Partnership of Lancaster and Saunders Counties 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE 101620 - USSTRATCOM Replacement Facility-KBG 142 FTE
STATE-SIZE Landmark Snacks 142 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pender 29 FTE
NAT-TCR thyssenkrupp Steel Services - Detroit 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Compassionate Care Hospice of Taunton 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Shopko Store #76 (Sioux Falls, SD (South)) 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Consolidated Electrical Distributors (Pc4007) 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Thermo Fisher Scientific - Auburn, Alabama 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Randolph Health and Rehabilitation Center 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sun State Components 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Toledo (1717 Matzinger Road) 143 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, 2017, 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.