Shock absorbers, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · Kentucky

Hitachi Astemo Berea Plant

Berea, KY · ~938 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hitachi Astemo Berea Plant runs at 40% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Shock absorbers, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Hitachi Astemo Berea Plant: 2.1 TCR = 40% of Shock absorbers, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hitachi Astemo Berea Plant safety composite

Hitachi Astemo Berea Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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

−0.9

2022→2024

Hitachi Astemo Berea Plant injury rate improved

Hitachi Astemo Berea Plant's TCR fell 0.9 from 2.7 in 2022 to 1.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=2.7 · 2023=2.0 · 2024=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 2.1 · 40% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #6/17
  • PHOTO F&P Georgia MFG
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 70 inj
  • SIZE ~938 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: F&P Georgia MFG (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hitachi Astemo Berea Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hitachi Astemo Berea Plant averages 2.1 TCR (40% of the Shock absorbers, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hitachi Astemo Berea Plant TCR series: 2022=2.7 · 2023=2 · 2024=1.8 · BLS 5.4

Where Hitachi Astemo Berea Plant falls in its industry

134 Shock absorbers, automotive, t establishments

Safer than 58% 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 #6 safest of 17 Shock absorbers, automotive, t employers in Kentucky.

Hitachi Astemo Berea Plant (938 employees, TCR 2.1) 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 Hitachi Astemo Berea Plant
Hitachi Astemo Berea Plant (938 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 192 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Hitachi Astemo Berea Plant has more employees than the Shock absorbers, 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 1.8 1.8 16 0 0
2023 2.0 1.4 22 0 0
2022 2.7 1.8 32 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336330 · KY · Berea

134 Shock absorbers, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 42 employers in Berea, 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 F&P Georgia MFG 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Canton R&D 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dura Automotive Systems 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems LLC 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE 6066 939 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hazard Regional Medical Center 940 FTE
STATE-SIZE KYTC Central Office 945 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blue Grass Chem. Demil. 947 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc 1,003 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hyster-Yale Group 902 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hyster-Yale Group Berea, KY Operations 828 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hyster-Yale Group Berea 740 FTE
NAT-TCR Webco Industries, Inc. - Kellyville Specialty Tube 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Franjo Construction 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ottawa Dental Laboratory, LLC - Norris Location 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Elf's Landscaping, Inc 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. 938 FTE
NAT-SIZE NOMS Healthcare 938 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aleut Federal, LLC (ALL PERSONNEL - ALL SUBSIDIARIES) 938 FTE
NAT-SIZE GKN Aerospace Chem Tronics 938 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.