Assembly plants, heavy trucks, and buses on chassis of own manufacture · Ohio

Kenworth Truck Company

Chillicothe, OH · ~2,053 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kenworth Truck Company runs at 98% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Assembly plants, heavy trucks, and buses on chassis of own manufacture workplace, earning a grade C.

Kenworth Truck Company: 3.2 TCR = 98% of Assembly plants, heavy trucks, and buses on chassis of own manufacture BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kenworth Truck Company safety composite

Kenworth Truck Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

Kenworth Truck Company: 2.8 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.9× in 2023

Kenworth Truck Company's TCR rose 1.2 from 2.8 in 2016 to 4.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336120 · Chillicothe, OH AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 98% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #2/8
  • PHOTO Nikola - Coolidge
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 189 inj
  • SIZE ~2,053 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nikola - Coolidge (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kenworth Truck Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kenworth Truck Company averages 3.2 TCR (98% of the Assembly plants, heavy trucks, and buses on chassis of own manufacture BLS benchmark).

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

Kenworth Truck Company TCR series: 2016=2.8 · 2017=2.9 · 2023=4 · BLS 3.3

Where Kenworth Truck Company falls in its industry

124 Assembly plants, heavy trucks, establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 8 Assembly plants, heavy trucks, employers in Ohio.

Kenworth Truck Company (2,053 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 223 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Kenworth Truck Company
Kenworth Truck Company (2,053 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 223 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Kenworth Truck Company has more employees than the Assembly plants, heavy trucks, and buses median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2023 4.0 2.9 91 0 0
2017 2.9 1.3 52 3 0
2016 2.8 1.3 46 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336120 · OH · Chillicothe

124 Assembly plants, heavy trucks, and buses on chassis of own manufacture employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 107 employers in Chillicothe, OH · 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 Nikola - Coolidge 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Orange EV LLC 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nova Bus (US) Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Plant 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fairfield Medical Center 2,049 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cleveland Works 2,044 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marion General Hospital 2,036 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kings Island 2,036 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adena Regional Medical Center 2,921 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kenworth Chillicothe 2,273 FTE
CITY-NEAR ADENA HEALTH SYSTEM 2,264 FTE
CITY-NEAR Glatfelter -Chillicothe 1,129 FTE
NAT-TCR Applied Solutions Group (ASG) : Wakefield-Pelham 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Veritiv Operating Company - TX324 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Bag Makers, Inc 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Rosa Brothers Milk Co Inc 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE FV St. John's Hospital 2,053 FTE
NAT-SIZE 088 Texas Health Physicians Group 2,053 FTE
NAT-SIZE Raytheon_Marlborough_MA 2,054 FTE
NAT-SIZE Legoland California Resort 2,055 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: 2023, 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.