Shock absorbers, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · California

Bilstein Shock Absorbers

Name: Bilstein Shock Absorbers Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Poway, CA · ~97 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.6
Avg TCR: 5.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Bilstein Shock Absorbers runs at 29% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Shock absorbers, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Bilstein Shock Absorbers: 1.6 TCR = 29% of Shock absorbers, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bilstein Shock Absorbers safety composite

Bilstein Shock Absorbers scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 1.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers
DART rate: D 1.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Bilstein Shock Absorbers: 1.2 → 1.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 1.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.24× in 2021

Bilstein Shock Absorbers's TCR rose 0.8 from 1.2 in 2019 to 1.9 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336330 · Poway, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 29% of ind

DART 1.9 DART
RANK #3/4
PHOTO Wheel Pros 1057-Tera…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~97 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wheel Pros 1057-Teraflex Dannon (0.0 TCR gap)

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1.6
Wheel Pros 105

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Magna

1.6
Federal-Mogul

1.5
thyssenkrupp B

1.5

What this shows Bilstein Shock Absorbers averages 1.6 TCR (29% of the Shock absorbers, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Bilstein Shock Absorbers TCR series: 2019=1.2 · 2021=1.9 · BLS 5.4

Where Bilstein Shock Absorbers falls in its industry

134 Shock absorbers, automotive, t establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Shock absorbers, automotive, t employers in California.

Bilstein Shock Absorbers (97 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 192 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Bilstein Shock Absorbers has fewer employees than the Shock absorbers, automotive, truck, and median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2021	1.9	1.9	2	0	0
2019	1.2	1.2	1	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336330 · CA · Poway

134 Shock absorbers, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 143 employers in Poway, CA · 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	Wheel Pros 1057-Teraflex Dannon	WEST JORDAN, UT	1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Magna	LANSING, MI	1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Federal-Mogul Maryville Manufacturing	MARYVILLE, MO	1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	thyssenkrupp Bilstein Main Plant	HAMILTON, OH	1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Grapeman Farms	BAKERSFIELD	97 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Varsity Packing, Inc	BAKERSFIELD	97 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Westland Floral Company Carpinteria, Inc.	CARPINTERIA	97 FTE
STATE-SIZE	LOS ANGELES RESERVOIR	SAN FERNANDO	97 FTE
CITY-NEAR	General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Poway Campus	Poway	4,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Geneal Atomics Facilities and Support Groups	Poway	1,169 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Palomar Medical Center Poway	Poway	889 FTE
CITY-NEAR	General Atomics - Poway - A15	Poway	661 FTE
NAT-TCR	Piggly Wiggly #275	Tifton, GA	1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	42361b - Marmora	Marmora, NJ	1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Fire & Life Safety America Corporate Office	Richmond, VA	1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Sodexo at Louisiana College	Pineville, LA	1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	ECM Princeton 11-PL MN	Princeton, MN	97 FTE
NAT-SIZE	USCS- Lebanon, IN	Lebanon, IN	97 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Tulsa (Ridgeview-SPI) FS (IND, O and G)	Tulsa, OK	97 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Ken Garner Manufacturing - CHO	Chattanooga, TN	97 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: 2021, 2019. 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.