Brake and brake parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · Kentucky

Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC

Bowling Green, KY · ~356 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC runs at 57% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Brake and brake parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC: 3.1 TCR = 57% of Brake and brake parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC safety composite

Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 39%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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

2016→2019

Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC injury rate improved

Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC's TCR fell 0.7 from 3.4 in 2016 to 2.6 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.4 · 2017=3.6 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 3.1 · 57% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #13/19
  • PHOTO Martinrea Internatio…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 46 inj
  • SIZE ~356 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Martinrea International, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC averages 3.1 TCR (57% of the Brake and brake parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC TCR series: 2016=3.4 · 2017=3.6 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=2.6 · BLS 5.4

Where Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC falls in its industry

133 Brake and brake parts, automot establishments

Safer than 39% 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 #13 safest of 19 Brake and brake parts, automot employers in Kentucky.

Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC (356 employees, TCR 3.1) 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 Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC
Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC (356 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 150 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC has more employees than the Brake and brake parts, automotive, truck 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
2019 2.6 1.4 13 0 0
2018 2.6 0.9 12 0 0
2017 3.6 1.7 14 1 0
2016 3.4 2.4 7 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336340 · KY · Bowling Green

133 Brake and brake parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 331 employers in Bowling Green, 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 Martinrea International, Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Akebono Brake Clarksville 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tramec Sloan Holland 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Centric Parts (PEO) - Carson 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Alltech Nicholasville 356 FTE
STATE-SIZE K043-M001 356 FTE
STATE-SIZE Raytheon_Louisville_KY 356 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1259 356 FTE
CITY-NEAR Western Kentucky University-Bowling Green 2,237 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Medical Center at Bowling Green 1,872 FTE
CITY-NEAR Magna Bowling Green Metalforming 1,441 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bowling Green Metalforming 1,344 FTE
NAT-TCR Primm Valley 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Specialty Ceramics Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Pen Care 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Nuplex Resins LLC (ESL) 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hotel Nikko San Francisco 356 FTE
NAT-SIZE NHRA 356 FTE
NAT-SIZE CardinalHealth NLC Groveport OH 356 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bemis North America - BCF 356 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, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.