Motor Vehicle Body Manufacturing · Ohio

Heritage Truck Equipment, Inc.

Akron, OH · ~72 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Heritage Truck Equipment, Inc. runs at 266% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Motor Vehicle Body Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Heritage Truck Equipment, Inc.: 8.8 TCR = 266% of Motor Vehicle Body Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Heritage Truck Equipment, Inc. safety composite

Heritage Truck Equipment, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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

Heritage Truck Equipment, Inc.: 6.6 → 11.0 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 11.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.25× in 2017

Heritage Truck Equipment, Inc.'s TCR rose 4.4 from 6.6 in 2016 to 11.0 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336211 · Akron, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 266% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #35/38
  • PHOTO Life Line Emergency …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~72 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Life Line Emergency Vehicles (0.0 TCR gap)

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Heritage Truck Equipment, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Heritage Truck Equipment, Inc. averages 8.8 TCR (266% of the Motor Vehicle Body Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Heritage Truck Equipment, Inc. TCR series: 2016=6.6 · 2017=11 · BLS 3.3

Where Heritage Truck Equipment, Inc. falls in its industry

470 Motor Vehicle Body Manufacturi establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 38 Motor Vehicle Body Manufacturi employers in Ohio.

Heritage Truck Equipment, Inc. (72 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Heritage Truck Equipment, Inc.
Heritage Truck Equipment, Inc. (72 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Heritage Truck Equipment, Inc. has fewer employees than the Motor Vehicle Body Manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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
2017 11.0 2.2 10 0 0
2016 6.6 4.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336211 · OH · Akron

470 Motor Vehicle Body Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 512 employers in Akron, 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 Life Line Emergency Vehicles 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR HilArk Industries 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crysteel Mfg Inc. (Truck Bodies & Equipment International, Lake Crystal 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR KNAPHEIDE TRUCK EQUIPMENT COMPANY BUDA 8.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE 300A 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Simonson Construction Services, Inc. 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE GB Fabrication 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Danbert, Inc. 72 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron 6,746 FTE
CITY-NEAR Akron Children's Hospital 6,060 FTE
CITY-NEAR Summa Health - Akron City 4,801 FTE
CITY-NEAR Akron General Medical Center 4,176 FTE
NAT-TCR Cass City Center (Micsc) 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bwi Airport (Mdbwi) 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR F.G. Rayburn Mason Contractors, Inc. 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Francis Hospital 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hydro - Burlington 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Lincoln County Inc 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Location #3 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Location #2 72 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: 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.