Trailer hitches, motor vehicle, manufacturing · Kentucky

AXN Heavy Duty

Louisville, KY · ~69 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AXN Heavy Duty runs at 78% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Trailer hitches, motor vehicle, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

AXN Heavy Duty: 4.2 TCR = 78% of Trailer hitches, motor vehicle, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AXN Heavy Duty safety composite

AXN Heavy Duty scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 35%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% 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%).

AXN Heavy Duty held a steady TCR band

AXN Heavy Duty's TCR held near 0.2 from 4.1 in 2023 to 4.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=4.1 · 2024=4.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336390 · Louisville, KY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 4.2 · 78% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #37/55
  • PHOTO MINGHUA USA
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~69 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MINGHUA USA (0.0 TCR gap)

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AXN Heavy Duty in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AXN Heavy Duty averages 4.2 TCR (78% 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

AXN Heavy Duty TCR series: 2023=4.1 · 2024=4.3 · BLS 5.4

Where AXN Heavy Duty falls in its industry

772 Trailer hitches, motor vehicle establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #37 safest of 55 Trailer hitches, motor vehicle employers in Kentucky.

AXN Heavy Duty (69 employees, TCR 4.2) 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 AXN Heavy Duty
AXN Heavy Duty (69 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2

AXN Heavy Duty 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
2024 4.3 0.0 3 0 0
2023 4.1 1.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336390 · KY · Louisville

772 Trailer hitches, motor vehicle, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 1,638 employers in Louisville, 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 MINGHUA USA 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Boysen USA, LLC 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Magna Mirrors 128N 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Reflex Industries 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Spy Coast Farm, LLC 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Warren County Water District 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Verst 300/Corporate 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heaven Hill Bernheim Distillery 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jefferson County Public Schools 18,524 FTE
CITY-NEAR KYGRA - WORLDPORT 11,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR WORLDPORT (KYGRA) 9,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR KTKY TRUCK 8,757 FTE
NAT-TCR Bel Air 521-Yuba City 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Colledgewood Inc 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR R&R Pumping Unit Repair & Service 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Kuakini Geriatric Care Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE SolEpoxy 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lash Construction Inc 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cascade Corporation 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wilson Works Inc 69 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.