Tank trailer, liquid and dry bulk, manufacturing · Indiana

Dragon ESP Akron

Akron, IN · ~41 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dragon ESP Akron runs at 418% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Tank trailer, liquid and dry bulk, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Dragon ESP Akron: 13.8 TCR = 418% of Tank trailer, liquid and dry bulk, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dragon ESP Akron safety composite

Dragon ESP Akron scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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).

F

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

Dragon ESP Akron: 5.9 → 18.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 18.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.34× in 2019

Dragon ESP Akron's TCR rose 12.8 from 5.9 in 2016 to 18.7 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336212 · Akron, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.8 · 418% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #40/45
  • PHOTO TRAIL-EZE Corsica
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TRAIL-EZE Corsica (0.1 TCR gap)

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Dragon ESP Akron in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dragon ESP Akron averages 13.8 TCR (418% of the Tank trailer, liquid and dry bulk, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Dragon ESP Akron TCR series: 2016=5.9 · 2017=17.5 · 2018=12.9 · 2019=18.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Dragon ESP Akron falls in its industry

474 Tank trailer, liquid and dry b establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #40 safest of 45 Tank trailer, liquid and dry b employers in Indiana.

Dragon ESP Akron (41 employees, TCR 13.8) 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 Dragon ESP Akron
Dragon ESP Akron (41 employees, TCR 13.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Dragon ESP Akron has fewer employees than the Tank trailer, liquid and dry bulk, manuf median and a higher 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
2019 18.7 4.7 8 0 0
2018 12.9 4.3 5 1 0
2017 17.5 5.8 6 0 0
2016 5.9 3.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336212 · IN · Akron

474 Tank trailer, liquid and dry bulk, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 5 employers in Akron, IN · 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 TRAIL-EZE Corsica 13.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Texas Pride Trailers 13.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR PALMER MACHINE WORKS, Inc. 13.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 118_11912 13.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bos Dairy, LLC 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE IN15-SEL-TERRE HAUTE ADMIN' 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Herrema Dairy LLC 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pike Lumber Company- Akron 132 FTE
CITY-NEAR Akron, IN 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR Akron - Tubes & Cores - C335 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dragon Products Akron 28 FTE
NAT-TCR iFLY Tampa 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Dodge Ridge 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Holland - RO 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Pacific Mutual Door Kansas City, LLC 13.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Versa-Tech Technologies, LLC 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Matson Timberland Lumber Co. 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southeast Georgia Health System - Camden Campus 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE SFV 41 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.