Rack and pinion steering assemblies manufacturing · Virginia

Somic America

Wytheville, VA · ~376 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Somic America runs at 81% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Rack and pinion steering assemblies manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Somic America: 4.4 TCR = 81% of Rack and pinion steering assemblies manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Somic America safety composite

Somic America scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% 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).

F

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

Somic America: 4.0 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.78× in 2024

Somic America's TCR rose 0.7 from 4.0 in 2016 to 4.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 6.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336330 · Wytheville, VA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.4 · 81% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK P25
  • PHOTO Hitachi Astemo Ameri…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 116 inj
  • SIZE ~376 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hitachi Astemo Americas Sunbury (0.0 TCR gap)

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Somic America in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Somic America averages 4.4 TCR (81% of the Rack and pinion steering assemblies manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Somic America TCR series: 2016=4 · 2017=4.8 · 2018=3 · 2019=6.3 · 2020=4.7 · 2022=3.6 · 2023=3.7 · 2024=4.8 · BLS 5.4

Where Somic America falls in its industry

134 Rack and pinion steering assem establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Somic America (376 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 192 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Somic America
Somic America (376 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 192 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Somic America has more employees than the Rack and pinion steering assemblies manu median and a higher 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
2024 4.8 3.4 17 0 0
2023 3.7 3.4 14 0 0
2022 3.6 2.6 13 1 0
2020 4.7 2.2 13 6 0
2019 6.3 3.5 23 0 0
2018 3.0 2.1 7 3 0
2017 4.8 2.1 15 1 0
2016 4.0 3.8 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336330 · VA · Wytheville

134 Rack and pinion steering assemblies manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 56 employers in Wytheville, VA · 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 Hitachi Astemo Americas Sunbury 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kendallville Plant 3 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR ZF Marysville 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Automotive Steering Columns, LLC 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ship Repair 376 FTE
STATE-SIZE 50CG100 CORP MED SURG RICHMOND HQ 376 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1825 376 FTE
STATE-SIZE Randolph College 376 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mount Rogers Community Services 700 FTE
CITY-NEAR WYTHEVILLE VA 378 FTE
CITY-NEAR BLUE RIDGE VA GATORADE 374 FTE
CITY-NEAR WYTHE COUNTY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL LLC 349 FTE
NAT-TCR Adena Fayette Medical Center 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR PanAmerican Seed Guadlupe 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Village of Burr Ridge - Police Department 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Custom Glass Atlanta Auburn 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Berkeley Cement, Inc. 376 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Red Cross - 4700 Mt Hope Dr 376 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hormel 376 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections 376 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.