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

Kautex of Georgia

Lavonia, GA · ~147 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.3
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kautex of Georgia runs at 6% 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 of Georgia: 0.3 TCR = 6% of Gas tanks assembled, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kautex of Georgia safety composite

Kautex of Georgia scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% 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

Kautex of Georgia: 0.0 → 0.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 0.7 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

Kautex of Georgia's TCR rose 0.7 from 0.0 in 2023 to 0.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 0.3 · 6% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #1/17
  • PHOTO Ricon-Wabtec
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~147 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ricon-Wabtec (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kautex of Georgia in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kautex of Georgia averages 0.3 TCR (6% 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 of Georgia TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=0.7 · BLS 5.4

Where Kautex of Georgia falls in its industry

772 Gas tanks assembled, automotiv establishments

Safer than 98% 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 #1 safest of 17 Gas tanks assembled, automotiv employers in Georgia.

Kautex of Georgia (147 employees, TCR 0.3) 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 of Georgia
Kautex of Georgia (147 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Kautex of Georgia has fewer 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
2024 0.7 0.7 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 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 Ricon-Wabtec 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR BOS Automotive Products, Inc. 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR BorgWarner Thermal Fletcher Plant 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR AUDUBON 0.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE VNG Virginia Beach Service Center 147 FTE
STATE-SIZE Universal Electric Company 147 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Fraser Blackshear 147 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Fraser Fitzgerald 147 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 Mason Road Sheet Metal Inc 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Grady Management Inc 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Superior Petroleum Services 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Bath Co Pw St 0.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Glenburnie Operator LLC 147 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lahav - Harvey 147 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wvfai - Fairmont 147 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Arlington of Naples 147 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. 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.