Brake and brake parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · Illinois

Piston Automotive

Name: Piston Automotive Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Belvidere, IL · ~72 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 3.3
Avg TCR: 5.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Piston Automotive runs at 61% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Brake and brake parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Piston Automotive: 3.3 TCR = 61% of Brake and brake parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Piston Automotive safety composite

Piston Automotive scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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).

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 3.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers
DART rate: F 3.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

Piston Automotive: 2.2 → 3.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.16× in 2021

Piston Automotive's TCR rose 1.6 from 2.2 in 2019 to 3.8 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336340 · Belvidere, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.3 · 61% of ind

DART 3.8 DART
RANK #3/4
PHOTO Avancez K2XX
BOOK 3y book
INJ 5 inj
SIZE ~72 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Avancez K2XX (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Piston Automotive averages 3.3 TCR (61% of the Brake and brake parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Piston Automotive TCR series: 2019=2.2 · 2020=3.9 · 2021=3.8 · BLS 5.4

Where Piston Automotive falls in its industry

133 Brake and brake parts, automot establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Brake and brake parts, automot employers in Illinois.

Piston Automotive (72 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 150 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Piston Automotive has fewer employees than the Brake and brake parts, automotive, truck median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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
2021	3.8	3.8	1
2020	3.9	3.9	2
2019	2.2	2.2	2

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336340 · IL · Belvidere

133 Brake and brake parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 74 employers in Belvidere, IL · 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	Avancez K2XX	FLINT, MI	3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Piston Automotive - Georgetown	GEORGETOWN, KY	3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Webb Wheel Inc.	SILOAM SPRINGS, AR	3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Undercar Express LLC	CLEVELAND, OH	3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	AMEREN ILLINOIS - Hillsboro / Mt. Clare	HILLSBORO	72 FTE
STATE-SIZE	AMEREN ILLINOIS - Persimmon Street	PEORIA	72 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Astoria Wire & Metal Products	BEDFORD PARK	72 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Korte and Luitjohan Contractors, Inc.	HIGHLAND	72 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Belvidere Assembly Plant	Belvidere	3,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Magna Exterirors Belvidere	Belvidere	655 FTE
CITY-NEAR	General Mills (Belvidere)	Belvidere	583 FTE
CITY-NEAR	General Mills Operations, LLC.	Belvidere	560 FTE
NAT-TCR	architectural Tile and Stone	Austin, TX	3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	4921 Hwy 85	Williston, ND	3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Mcintyre Elwell & Strammer General Contractor,	Sarasota, FL	3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	CMC	Cleveland, TN	3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Hagler Systems, Inc.	Augusta, GA	72 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Modern Drywall, Inc.	Spokane, WA	72 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Kerkstra Precast-Trenton	Trenton, MI	72 FTE
NAT-SIZE	R Y Timber, Inc/Townsend Div	Townsend, MT	72 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, 2020, 2019. 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.