Gas tanks assembled, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · Georgia

Kautex - Lavonia

Lavonia, GA · ~188 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kautex - Lavonia runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Gas tanks assembled, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Kautex - Lavonia: 1.5 TCR = 28% of Gas tanks assembled, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kautex - Lavonia safety composite

Kautex - Lavonia scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 81% 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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

−2.8

2016→2021

Kautex - Lavonia injury rate improved

Kautex - Lavonia's TCR fell 2.8 from 4.3 in 2016 to 1.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.3 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336390 · Lavonia, GA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 28% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #3/17
  • PHOTO Nascote Industries -…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~188 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nascote Industries - Mockingbird Road (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kautex - Lavonia in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kautex - Lavonia averages 1.5 TCR (28% of the Gas tanks assembled, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kautex - Lavonia TCR series: 2016=4.3 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=1.6 · BLS 5.4

Where Kautex - Lavonia falls in its industry

772 Gas tanks assembled, automotiv establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 17 Gas tanks assembled, automotiv employers in Georgia.

Kautex - Lavonia (188 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kautex - Lavonia
Kautex - Lavonia (188 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Kautex - Lavonia has more employees than the Gas tanks assembled, automotive, truck, median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 1.6 0.8 2 0 0
2020 1.8 0.9 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 4.3 2.9 11 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336390 · GA · Lavonia

772 Gas tanks assembled, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 36 employers in Lavonia, GA · 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 Nascote Industries - Mockingbird Road 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Key Safety Systems dba Joyson Safety Systems 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR DENSO Manufacturing North Carolina, Inc. - Statesville Plant 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Mitsuba Bardstown 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Foss Manufacturing Co LLC 188 FTE
STATE-SIZE USA Calhoun GA Union Grove 188 FTE
STATE-SIZE GA051 Warrenton II 188 FTE
STATE-SIZE Miura America Co., Ltd 188 FTE
CITY-NEAR 9711 566 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Mary's Sacred Heart Hospital-SMHCS-GA 359 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carry-On Lavonia 329 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sacred Heart 323 FTE
NAT-TCR Minnesota Office 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Walman Optical- Kent 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR FedEx Office Phoenix Manufacturing Plant 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Embraer Executive Jet Services LLC BDL 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Madden Bolt 188 FTE
NAT-SIZE ADESA Indianapolis 188 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arbor Springs Health & Rehab Center 188 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kingston Healthcare Center 188 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, 2018, 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.