Steering wheels, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · Kentucky

Dakkota

Louisville, KY · ~177 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dakkota runs at 21% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Steering wheels, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Dakkota: 1.2 TCR = 21% of Steering wheels, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dakkota safety composite

Dakkota scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

−1.4

2023→2024

Dakkota injury rate improved

Dakkota's TCR fell 1.4 from 1.9 in 2023 to 0.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 1.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=1.9 · 2024=0.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336330 · Louisville, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 21% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/17
  • PHOTO Polaris Riverside Ma…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~177 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Polaris Riverside Manufacturing (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dakkota in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dakkota averages 1.2 TCR (21% of the Steering wheels, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Dakkota TCR series: 2023=1.9 · 2024=0.5 · BLS 5.4

Where Dakkota falls in its industry

134 Steering wheels, automotive, t establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 17 Steering wheels, automotive, t employers in Kentucky.

Dakkota (177 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 192 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Dakkota
Dakkota (177 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 192 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Dakkota has fewer employees than the Steering wheels, 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
2024 0.5 0.0 1 0 0
2023 1.9 0.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336330 · KY · Louisville

134 Steering wheels, automotive, truck, and bus, 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 Polaris Riverside Manufacturing 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Avancez - Flint 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR KAC Greenwood 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Karl Manufacturing Solutions 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sentry Steel, Inc. 177 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fabricated Metals, LLC 177 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2807-0460 177 FTE
STATE-SIZE 014-00420 177 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 Langhorne 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Woodstock Sterile Solutions 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Merle Boes Inc / Petro & Pantry Inc 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Bornquist, Inc. - Chicago 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Westfield Electroplating Company 177 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atek Metal Technologies 177 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kansas City Office 177 FTE
NAT-SIZE Terwilliger Plaza 177 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.