Automobile suspension springs, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing · Kentucky

Mubea Connecting Products (formerly known as Hose Clamps)

Florence, KY · ~76 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Mubea Connecting Products (formerly known as Hose Clamps) runs at 176% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Automobile suspension springs, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Mubea Connecting Products (formerly known as Hose Clamps): 5.8 TCR = 176% of Automobile suspension springs, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mubea Connecting Products (formerly known as Hose Clamps) safety composite

Mubea Connecting Products (formerly known as Hose Clamps) scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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

−5.3

2017→2022

Mubea Connecting Products (formerly known as Hose Clamps) injury rate improved

Mubea Connecting Products (formerly known as Hose Clamps)'s TCR fell 5.3 from 7.8 in 2017 to 2.5 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 9.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.8 · 2018=7.8 · 2019=9.5 · 2020=1.4 · 2022=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332613 · Florence, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 176% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #9/15
  • PHOTO James Spring & Wire …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~76 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: James Spring & Wire Co. (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Kentucky employers → · Look up another →

Mubea Connecting Products (formerly known as Hose Clamps) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mubea Connecting Products (formerly known as Hose Clamps) averages 5.8 TCR (176% of the Automobile suspension springs, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Mubea Connecting Products (formerly known as Hose Clamps) TCR series: 2017=7.8 · 2018=7.8 · 2019=9.5 · 2020=1.4 · 2022=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Mubea Connecting Products (formerly known as Hose Clamps) falls in its industry

189 Automobile suspension springs, establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 15 Automobile suspension springs, employers in Kentucky.

Mubea Connecting Products (formerly known as Hose Clamps) (76 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Mubea Connecting Products (formerly known as Hose Clamps)
Mubea Connecting Products (formerly known as Hose Clamps) (76 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Mubea Connecting Products (formerly known as Hose Clamps) has more employees than the Automobile suspension springs, heavy gau median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2022 2.5 1.3 1 1 0
2020 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2019 9.5 3.5 8 0 0
2018 7.8 2.2 7 0 0
2017 7.8 3.1 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332613 · KY · Florence

189 Automobile suspension springs, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 181 employers in Florence, 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 James Spring & Wire Co. 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Barber Spring OH 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Automatic Spring Products Corp. - Taylor 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Matthew Warren Spring 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Paul Michels and Sons, Inc 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hebron 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kingsford Manufacturing Co. 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cresline Plastic Pipe Company, Inc. 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Elizabeth Healthcare Florence 826 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jabil CVG 795 FTE
CITY-NEAR Robert Bosch Automotive Steering, LLC 687 FTE
CITY-NEAR AS - Automotive Steering 651 FTE
NAT-TCR Tops #702 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Food City Store #620 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Advanced Energy Industries - Lockport 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Caesarstone Technologies, USA Inc. 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Federal Marine Terminals, Inc - Port Manatee 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Steel Technologies Berkeley 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tops #431 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Agawam Distribution 76 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: 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.