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

KAC Franklin

Franklin, IN · ~726 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

KAC Franklin runs at 75% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Shock absorbers, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

KAC Franklin: 4.1 TCR = 75% of Shock absorbers, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KAC Franklin safety composite

KAC Franklin scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

−4.8

2016→2021

KAC Franklin injury rate improved

KAC Franklin's TCR fell 4.8 from 7.3 in 2016 to 2.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.3 · 2018=4.8 · 2019=2.1 · 2020=3.7 · 2021=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336330 · Franklin, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 4.1 · 75% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO Dexter Silent Drive
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 120 inj
  • SIZE ~726 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dexter Silent Drive (0.1 TCR gap)

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KAC Franklin in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows KAC Franklin averages 4.1 TCR (75% 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

KAC Franklin TCR series: 2016=7.3 · 2018=4.8 · 2019=2.1 · 2020=3.7 · 2021=2.5 · BLS 5.4

Where KAC Franklin falls in its industry

134 Shock absorbers, automotive, t establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 7 Shock absorbers, automotive, t employers in Indiana.

KAC Franklin (726 employees, TCR 4.1) 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 KAC Franklin
KAC Franklin (726 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 192 employees and a TCR of 2.7

KAC Franklin has more employees than the Shock absorbers, automotive, truck, and median and a higher 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
2021 2.5 1.8 17 0 0
2020 3.7 2.6 22 1 0
2019 2.1 0.9 15 1 0
2018 4.8 3.5 32 4 0
2016 7.3 3.7 34 31 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336330 · IN · Franklin

134 Shock absorbers, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 78 employers in Franklin, 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 Dexter Silent Drive 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR TDM INTERNATIONAL INC. 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zanini 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tenneco 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2807-0992 726 FTE
STATE-SIZE the womens hospital 728 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farbest Foods Huntingburg 729 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - MQJ5 723 FTE
CITY-NEAR Johnson Memorial Health 878 FTE
CITY-NEAR Government 694 FTE
CITY-NEAR Reman Powertrain Indiana 473 FTE
CITY-NEAR Interstate Warehousing Franklin 347 FTE
NAT-TCR Cargill Sweet Bran Dalhart 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Meridian Store 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Rapac Lp 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Akron Campus 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Suffolk Construction Company, Inc Northeast Region 726 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6354-TX21 726 FTE
NAT-SIZE MilliporeSigma - SPRUCE 726 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lincoln Il 726 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.