Heavy trucks assembling on chassis of own manufacture · Arizona

Nikola Corporation

Phoenix, AZ · ~511 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nikola Corporation runs at 11% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Heavy trucks assembling on chassis of own manufacture workplace, earning a grade A.

Nikola Corporation: 0.4 TCR = 11% of Heavy trucks assembling on chassis of own manufacture BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nikola Corporation safety composite

Nikola Corporation scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% 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

Nikola Corporation: 0.0 → 0.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 0.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.3× in 2024

Nikola Corporation's TCR rose 0.6 from 0.0 in 2018 to 0.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 0.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336120 · Phoenix, AZ AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 11% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK P94
  • PHOTO Global Technology Ce…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~511 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Global Technology Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nikola Corporation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nikola Corporation averages 0.4 TCR (11% of the Heavy trucks assembling on chassis of own manufacture BLS benchmark).

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

Nikola Corporation TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0.8 · 2021=0 · 2022=0.5 · 2023=0.7 · 2024=0.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Nikola Corporation falls in its industry

124 Heavy trucks assembling on cha establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Nikola Corporation (511 employees, TCR 0.4) 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 05001,0001,500 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Nikola Corporation
Nikola Corporation (511 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 223 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Nikola Corporation has more employees than the Heavy trucks assembling on chassis of ow 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
2024 0.6 0.5 4 0 0
2023 0.7 0.7 5 0 0
2022 0.5 0.1 4 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.8 0.0 2 1 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336120 · AZ · Phoenix

124 Heavy trucks assembling on chassis of own manufacture employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 2,630 employers in Phoenix, AZ · 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 Global Technology Center 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Detroit Engineering Office 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR PACCAR Inc - Corporate 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Volvo Trucks NA Greensboro 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE CORBINS ELECTRIC - PHOENIX, AZ 510 FTE
STATE-SIZE Goodrich Corporation - Interiors - Evacuation Systems 512 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Tempe Police Department 510 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ciox Health - Dunlap Office 509 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maricopa County 15,504 FTE
CITY-NEAR Phoenix Children's Hospital 7,575 FTE
CITY-NEAR All Company 6,261 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030500 6,153 FTE
NAT-TCR Devens 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR West Gaines Seed Inc 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Bedford Engineering 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Buckman Laboratories, International, Inc. 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Philips Medical Systems 511 FTE
NAT-SIZE National OnDemand, Inc 511 FTE
NAT-SIZE GAP Solutions, Inc. 511 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jelly Belly Candy Company 511 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.