Gasoline engines (except aircraft, automotive, truck) manufacturing · Mississippi

Kohler Co

Hattiesburg, MS · ~575 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kohler Co runs at 59% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Gasoline engines (except aircraft, automotive, truck) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Kohler Co: 2.0 TCR = 59% of Gasoline engines (except aircraft, automotive, truck) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kohler Co safety composite

Kohler Co scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−0.8

2017→2021

Kohler Co injury rate improved

Kohler Co's TCR fell 0.8 from 2.5 in 2017 to 1.8 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 2.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.5 · 2018=1.7 · 2019=1.2 · 2020=2.5 · 2021=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333618 · Hattiesburg, MS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 59% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK P64
  • PHOTO Holset Palmetto Plant
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 59 inj
  • SIZE ~575 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Holset Palmetto Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kohler Co in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kohler Co averages 2.0 TCR (59% of the Gasoline engines (except aircraft, automotive, truck) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kohler Co TCR series: 2017=2.5 · 2018=1.7 · 2019=1.2 · 2020=2.5 · 2021=1.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Kohler Co falls in its industry

133 Gasoline engines (except aircr establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Kohler Co (575 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 321 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kohler Co
Kohler Co (575 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 321 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Kohler Co has more employees than the Gasoline engines (except aircraft, autom median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 1.8 1.2 17 0 0
2020 2.5 1.6 16 0 0
2019 1.2 1.0 6 0 0
2018 1.7 1.1 8 0 0
2017 2.5 1.3 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333618 · MS · Hattiesburg

133 Gasoline engines (except aircraft, automotive, truck) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 186 employers in Hattiesburg, MS · 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 Holset Palmetto Plant 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Engine Products 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Engine Works 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Detroit Diesel Corporation 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Taylor Machine Works 574 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 4123 577 FTE
STATE-SIZE Helen of Troy-Southaven, MS 579 FTE
STATE-SIZE 172 - COLUMBUS AFB 571 FTE
CITY-NEAR HATTIESBURG FOOD 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hattiesburg 4,161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Processing Plant 1,173 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mar-Jac Poultry MS LLC - Processing Plant 1,163 FTE
NAT-TCR Wisconsin Paperboard 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR ARRGH LLC, dba TWO MEN AND A TRUCK 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cleaning & Restoration Corp. 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Fort Dearborn Company Provo 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Child and Family Services 575 FTE
NAT-SIZE US - Distribution Center Network : 0003 575 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hamilton Growers, Inc. 575 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maruchan Laguna 575 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, 2017. 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.