Automotive, truck and bus steering assemblies and parts manufacturing · Vermont

NSK Steering Systems America

Name: NSK Steering Systems America Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Bennington, VT · ~305 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.6
Avg TCR: 5.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

NSK Steering Systems America runs at 30% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Automotive, truck and bus steering assemblies and parts manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

NSK Steering Systems America: 1.6 TCR = 30% of Automotive, truck and bus steering assemblies and parts manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NSK Steering Systems America safety composite

NSK Steering Systems America scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% 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).

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 1.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0.56 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%).

NSK Steering Systems America held a steady TCR band

NSK Steering Systems America's TCR held near 0.1 from 1.6 in 2016 to 1.7 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.6 · 2020=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336330 · Bennington, VT AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 30% of ind

DART 0.6 DART
RANK P68
PHOTO 3150 Dove St.
BOOK 2y book
INJ 9 inj
SIZE ~305 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 3150 Dove St. (0.0 TCR gap)

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1.7
R. H. Sheppard

1.7
This site

1.6
3150 Dove St.

1.6
Wheel Pros 105

1.6

What this shows NSK Steering Systems America averages 1.6 TCR (30% of the Automotive, truck and bus steering assemblies and parts manufacturing BLS benchmark).

NSK Steering Systems America TCR series: 2016=1.6 · 2020=1.7 · BLS 5.4

Where NSK Steering Systems America falls in its industry

134 Automotive, truck and bus stee establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

NSK Steering Systems America (305 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 192 employees and a TCR of 2.7

NSK Steering Systems America has more employees than the Automotive, truck and bus steering assem 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
2020	1.7	0.6	3	0	0
2016	1.6	0.5	6	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336330 · VT · Bennington

134 Automotive, truck and bus steering assemblies and parts manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,065 rated employers in Vermont with headcount on file · 42 employers in Bennington, VT · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	3150 Dove St.	PT. HURON, MI	1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Mitchell	MITCHELL, IL	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	R. H. Sheppard Co., Inc	WYTHEVILLE, VA	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Wheel Pros 1057-Teraflex Dannon	WEST JORDAN, UT	1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	VTBUL - BURLINGTON	WILLISTON	306 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Weidmann Electrical Technology Inc-St. Johnsbury	ST JOHNBURY	302 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Counseling Service of Addison County, Inc.	MIDDLEBURY	299 FTE
STATE-SIZE	CS Wholesale Grocers : Brattleboro, VT (GDC)	BRATTLEBORO	298 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Southwestern Vermont Medical Center	Bennington	1,020 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 2289	Bennington	265 FTE
CITY-NEAR	United Counseling Service of Bennington County	Bennington	231 FTE
CITY-NEAR	2289	Bennington	226 FTE
NAT-TCR	Budget Heating Cooling & Plumbing	St. Peters, MO	1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	LK Jordan, Houston, LTD dba L.K. Jordan & Associates	Corpus Christi, TX	1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Geo's Shop/Offices	Brainerd, MN	1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	City of Hoyt Lakes	Hoyt Lakes, MN	1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Welch Packaging, LLC	Elkhart, IN	305 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Cardinal IG - Fremont IG	Fremont, IN	305 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Princeton R&D	Princeton, NJ	305 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Fruit Packing #4	Sanger, CA	305 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: 2020, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.