Truck trailer manufacturing · Illinois

Great Dane - Kewanee

Kewanee, IL · ~621 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Great Dane - Kewanee runs at 65% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Truck trailer manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Great Dane - Kewanee: 2.1 TCR = 65% of Truck trailer manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Great Dane - Kewanee safety composite

Great Dane - Kewanee scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% 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).

C

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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

−2.4

2016→2023

Great Dane - Kewanee injury rate improved

Great Dane - Kewanee's TCR fell 2.4 from 5.2 in 2016 to 2.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.2 · 2017=2.3 · 2018=0.8 · 2019=0.8 · 2020=2.0 · 2021=2.4 · 2022=0.8 · 2023=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336212 · Kewanee, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 65% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #2/10
  • PHOTO Nelson Manufacturing…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 99 inj
  • SIZE ~621 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nelson Manufacturing Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Great Dane - Kewanee in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Great Dane - Kewanee averages 2.1 TCR (65% of the Truck trailer manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Great Dane - Kewanee TCR series: 2016=5.2 · 2017=2.3 · 2018=0.8 · 2019=0.8 · 2020=2 · 2021=2.4 · 2022=0.8 · 2023=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Great Dane - Kewanee falls in its industry

474 Truck trailer manufacturing establishments

Safer than 89% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 10 Truck trailer manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Great Dane - Kewanee (621 employees, TCR 2.1) 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 Great Dane - Kewanee
Great Dane - Kewanee (621 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Great Dane - Kewanee 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
2023 2.8 2.3 17 2 0
2022 0.8 0.7 5 0 0
2021 2.4 1.2 11 3 0
2020 2.0 1.0 7 3 0
2019 0.8 0.8 6 0 0
2018 0.8 0.7 6 0 0
2017 2.3 1.6 15 0 0
2016 5.2 2.6 32 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336212 · IL · Kewanee

474 Truck trailer manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 25 employers in Kewanee, IL · 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 Nelson Manufacturing Company 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carry-On Mexia 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Tex Wills Point 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Evoqua Water Technologies 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE John Deere Global Crop Harvesting PDC 622 FTE
STATE-SIZE ABF Freight 034 622 FTE
STATE-SIZE ExxonMobil Joliet Refinery 619 FTE
STATE-SIZE Taylor a Division of Carrier Commercial Refrigeration 623 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 633 257 FTE
CITY-NEAR 633 235 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint Luke Medical Center 180 FTE
CITY-NEAR Royal Oaks 132 FTE
NAT-TCR Explosive Countermeasures International, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Hopkinton #231 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR SEJONG 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR The Clement Palo Alto 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Counce, Tn 621 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harrah'S Gulf Coast Casino, Hotel & Spa 621 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clifton Springs Hospital 621 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sutter Davis Hospital (110-3001) 621 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.