Radiators and cores manufacturing · Missouri

Piston Automotive, LLC

North Kansas City, MO · ~174 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Piston Automotive, LLC runs at 34% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Radiators and cores manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Piston Automotive, LLC: 1.8 TCR = 34% of Radiators and cores manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Piston Automotive, LLC safety composite

Piston Automotive, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 89% 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% 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

Piston Automotive, LLC: 1.4 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Piston Automotive, LLC's TCR rose 2.0 from 1.4 in 2019 to 3.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336390 · North Kansas City, MO AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.8 · 34% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/15
  • PHOTO Shape Corp - 1835 In…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~174 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Shape Corp - 1835 Industrial Dr. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Piston Automotive, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Piston Automotive, LLC averages 1.8 TCR (34% of the Radiators and cores manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Piston Automotive, LLC TCR series: 2019=1.4 · 2020=0.8 · 2023=3.3 · BLS 5.4

Where Piston Automotive, LLC falls in its industry

772 Radiators and cores manufactur establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 15 Radiators and cores manufactur employers in Missouri.

Piston Automotive, LLC (174 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Piston Automotive, LLC
Piston Automotive, LLC (174 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Piston Automotive, LLC has more employees than the Radiators and cores manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2023 3.3 0.0 5 0 0
2020 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2019 1.4 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336390 · MO · North Kansas City

772 Radiators and cores manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 113 employers in North Kansas City, MO · 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 Shape Corp - 1835 Industrial Dr. 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Norplas Industries (Magna T.E.A.M. Systems) 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Franklin Precision Industry, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plastic Omnium (Huron) 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Willert Home Products St. Louis 174 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0410 MANHEIM KANSAS CITY 3901 N SKILES AVE 174 FTE
STATE-SIZE Performance Missouri - 1002 174 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1077 LOWE S OF JEFFERSON CITY MO 174 FTE
CITY-NEAR Garney Holding Company 1,890 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harrah's Kansas City 747 FTE
CITY-NEAR PrimeTech International 405 FTE
CITY-NEAR NorthCare Hospice House 266 FTE
NAT-TCR Langham Logistics Inc 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR GSWP-Corp Maintenance 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Land of Lincoln Goodwill Champaign Store 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR LMI - Fredonia 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE R&L Spring Company 174 FTE
NAT-SIZE Westpac Labs, Inc. Bakersfield 174 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atlanta West 174 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ducommun - Berryville 174 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: 2023, 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.