The manufacture and assembly of trailer axles, suspensions and wheel end assemblies for heavy vehicle systems. · Kentucky

Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems LLC

Frankfort, KY · ~131 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems LLC runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical The manufacture and assembly of trailer axles, suspensions and wheel end assemblies for heavy vehicle systems. workplace, earning a grade A.

Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems LLC: 2.1 TCR = 39% of The manufacture and assembly of trailer axles, suspensions and wheel end assemblies for heavy vehicle systems. BLS 5.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems LLC safety composite

Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 65% 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.65 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%).

Rising injury rate

Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems LLC: 1.4 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 3.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.31× in 2021

Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems LLC's TCR rose 1.2 from 1.4 in 2016 to 2.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336330 · Frankfort, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 2.1 · 39% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #5/17
  • PHOTO Canton R&D
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~131 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Canton R&D (0.0 TCR gap)

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Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems LLC averages 2.1 TCR (39% of the The manufacture and assembly of trailer axles, suspensions and wheel end assemblies for heavy vehicle systems. BLS benchmark).

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

Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems LLC TCR series: 2016=1.4 · 2018=3 · 2019=1.5 · 2021=2.6 · BLS 5.4

Where Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems LLC falls in its industry

134 The manufacture and assembly o establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 17 The manufacture and assembly o employers in Kentucky.

Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems LLC (131 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 192 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems LLC
Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems LLC (131 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 192 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems LLC has fewer employees than the The manufacture and assembly of trailer median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 2.6 0.7 4 0 0
2019 1.5 0.0 2 0 0
2018 3.0 0.7 4 0 0
2016 1.4 0.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336330 · KY · Frankfort

134 The manufacture and assembly of trailer axles, suspensions and wheel end assemblies for heavy vehicle systems. employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 104 employers in Frankfort, 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 Canton R&D 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hitachi Astemo Berea Plant 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR F&P Georgia MFG 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dura Automotive Systems 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Elizabethtown 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bunzl Retail Services, LLC 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1770 LOWE S OF CAMPBELLSVILLE KY 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE 153 - Paducah 131 FTE
CITY-NEAR KYTC Central Office 945 FTE
CITY-NEAR Human Resource Bldg 892 FTE
CITY-NEAR Montaplast of North America Inc 784 FTE
CITY-NEAR EECSOWER 754 FTE
NAT-TCR Job One - SDS 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Enviro Waste 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Cal Electro, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR JX Truck Center Fort Wayne 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Elliott Electric Supply #49 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE Royal Care Skilled Nursing Center 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE Secure Nursing Service, Inc. 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE Instrumentation : Hollis 131 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, 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.