Ball bearings manufacturing · South Carolina

JTEKT North America

Blythewood, SC · ~447 workers · 3 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

JTEKT North America runs at 64% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Ball bearings manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

JTEKT North America: 2.1 TCR = 64% of Ball bearings manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

JTEKT North America safety composite

JTEKT North America scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

JTEKT North America: 1.8 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.39× in 2024

JTEKT North America's TCR rose 0.7 from 1.8 in 2022 to 2.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332991 · Blythewood, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 64% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #8/17
  • PHOTO NTN Bower Corporation
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~447 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NTN Bower Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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JTEKT North America in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows JTEKT North America averages 2.1 TCR (64% of the Ball bearings manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

JTEKT North America TCR series: 2022=1.8 · 2023=2 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where JTEKT North America falls in its industry

125 Ball bearings manufacturing establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 17 Ball bearings manufacturing employers in South Carolina.

JTEKT North America (447 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate JTEKT North America
JTEKT North America (447 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 2.8

JTEKT North America has more employees than the Ball bearings manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 2.5 0.8 13 2 0
2023 2.0 1.4 12 0 0
2022 1.8 1.8 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332991 · SC · Blythewood

125 Ball bearings manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 36 employers in Blythewood, SC · 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 NTN Bower Corporation 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schatz Bearing Corporati0on 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR thyssenkrupp Rothe Erde USA Inc 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lincolnton 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cowpens - 600 Webber Road 447 FTE
STATE-SIZE SIMPSONVILLE MEDICAL CAMPUS 447 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenville County Parks and Recreation 448 FTE
STATE-SIZE First Student-20956 445 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Carolina Department of Public Safety - All Divisions 1,348 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Carolina Department of Public Safety - Highway Patrol 890 FTE
CITY-NEAR Koyo Richland Plant 458 FTE
CITY-NEAR C425 Columbia 202 FTE
NAT-TCR Dayton Real Estate Ventures LLC DBA Hollywood Gaming at Dayton Raceway 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ingersoll Cutting Tool Company Inc 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Gibsonburg OH 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR LECO Corporation -- Headquarters 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE INTAT Precision, Inc. 447 FTE
NAT-SIZE Washington State Department of Health (Shoreline) 447 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brilliant Corners 447 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3888 - East Coast Return Center 447 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.

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

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