Rims, automotive, truck, and bus wheel, manufacturing · Kentucky

McKehnie Vehicle Components

Nicholasville, KY · ~427 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

McKehnie Vehicle Components runs at 138% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Rims, automotive, truck, and bus wheel, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

McKehnie Vehicle Components: 7.5 TCR = 138% of Rims, automotive, truck, and bus wheel, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

McKehnie Vehicle Components safety composite

McKehnie Vehicle Components scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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).

F

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

−1.6

2016→2019

McKehnie Vehicle Components injury rate improved

McKehnie Vehicle Components's TCR fell 1.6 from 7.2 in 2016 to 5.6 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.2 · 2017=10.6 · 2018=6.4 · 2019=5.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336390 · Nicholasville, KY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.5 · 138% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #54/55
  • PHOTO Eastern Manufacturin…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 113 inj
  • SIZE ~427 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Eastern Manufacturing, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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McKehnie Vehicle Components in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows McKehnie Vehicle Components averages 7.5 TCR (138% of the Rims, automotive, truck, and bus wheel, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

McKehnie Vehicle Components TCR series: 2016=7.2 · 2017=10.6 · 2018=6.4 · 2019=5.6 · BLS 5.4

Where McKehnie Vehicle Components falls in its industry

772 Rims, automotive, truck, and b establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #54 safest of 55 Rims, automotive, truck, and b employers in Kentucky.

McKehnie Vehicle Components (427 employees, TCR 7.5) 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 McKehnie Vehicle Components
McKehnie Vehicle Components (427 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2

McKehnie Vehicle Components has more employees than the Rims, automotive, truck, and bus wheel, median and a higher 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
2019 5.6 3.2 20 3 0
2018 6.4 4.9 26 0 0
2017 10.6 7.1 37 14 0
2016 7.2 2.6 30 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336390 · KY · Nicholasville

772 Rims, automotive, truck, and bus wheel, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 87 employers in Nicholasville, KY · 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 Eastern Manufacturing, Inc. 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR DYNAFLEX PRODUCTS - GAYHART 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trailer Component Manufacturing 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mountaintop USA 7.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mizkan Owensboro 428 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cooper Standard 428 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwire Company Kentucky Plant 428 FTE
STATE-SIZE Supply Chain Madisonville Ky 426 FTE
CITY-NEAR YMCA of Central KY - Jessamine County 3,846 FTE
CITY-NEAR CUMBERLAND 551 FTE
CITY-NEAR R. J. Corman Switching Company, LLC 465 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alltech Nicholasville 356 FTE
NAT-TCR Energy Resources Group, Inc. 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Amzl : Dmi3 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Enterprise Rent A Car (Pensacola Airport) 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Mineral Springs 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0460 - Windows-Hawkins 427 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plant 16 427 FTE
NAT-SIZE BWS-Beretania Complex 427 FTE
NAT-SIZE ADS Security 427 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: 2019, 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.