Truck trailer manufacturing · Ohio

Brown Industrial, Inc.

Botkins, OH · ~94 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Brown Industrial, Inc. runs at 131% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Truck trailer manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Brown Industrial, Inc.: 4.3 TCR = 131% of Truck trailer manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Brown Industrial, Inc. safety composite

Brown Industrial, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

−6.9

2016→2024

Brown Industrial, Inc. injury rate improved

Brown Industrial, Inc.'s TCR fell 6.9 from 9.7 in 2016 to 2.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 9.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.7 · 2019=3.9 · 2022=3.2 · 2023=2.0 · 2024=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336212 · Botkins, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 131% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #19/37
  • PHOTO Moritz - Main Street
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~94 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Moritz - Main Street (0.0 TCR gap)

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Brown Industrial, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Brown Industrial, Inc. averages 4.3 TCR (131% of the Truck trailer manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Brown Industrial, Inc. TCR series: 2016=9.7 · 2019=3.9 · 2022=3.2 · 2023=2 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Brown Industrial, Inc. falls in its industry

474 Truck trailer manufacturing establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 37 Truck trailer manufacturing employers in Ohio.

Brown Industrial, Inc. (94 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Brown Industrial, Inc.
Brown Industrial, Inc. (94 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Brown Industrial, Inc. has more employees than the Truck trailer manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 2.8 2.8 3 0 0
2023 2.0 2.0 2 0 0
2022 3.2 2.1 3 0 0
2019 3.9 3.0 4 0 0
2016 9.7 5.4 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336212 · OH · Botkins

474 Truck trailer manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 8 employers in Botkins, OH · 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 Moritz - Main Street 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Missoiula 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Tex Trailer Manufacturing, LLC - Madill, OK 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quality Trailers Ohio, Inc. 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE K.W. Zellers & Son, Inc. 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Scherzinger Pest Control 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE AEP Energy Contact Center 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE WESTERN - WEST PARK SHOP 94 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boomerang Rubber Inc 107 FTE
CITY-NEAR Koenig Equipment- Shared Resource Center 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sunrise Cooperative - Botkins 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hubbard Feeds - Botkins, OH 30 FTE
NAT-TCR Keefe Packaging 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR ProSolutions 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR T&J Albany 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR DelGrosso's Amusement Park 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE avb 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE OMT 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fairchild Equipment - Green Bay 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eversource - Stamford 94 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, 2022, 2019, 2016. 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.