Shock absorbers, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · Ohio

Tenneco Kettering

Dayton, OH · ~415 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tenneco Kettering runs at 19% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Shock absorbers, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Tenneco Kettering: 1.0 TCR = 19% of Shock absorbers, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tenneco Kettering safety composite

Tenneco Kettering scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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%).

Tenneco Kettering held a steady TCR band

Tenneco Kettering's TCR held near 0.3 from 0.9 in 2022 to 1.2 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=0.9 · 2023=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336330 · Dayton, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 19% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/18
  • PHOTO thyssenkrupp Bilstei…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~415 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: thyssenkrupp Bilstein of America Main Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tenneco Kettering in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tenneco Kettering averages 1.0 TCR (19% of the Shock absorbers, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Tenneco Kettering TCR series: 2022=0.9 · 2023=1.2 · BLS 5.4

Where Tenneco Kettering falls in its industry

134 Shock absorbers, automotive, t establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 18 Shock absorbers, automotive, t employers in Ohio.

Tenneco Kettering (415 employees, TCR 1.0) 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 Tenneco Kettering
Tenneco Kettering (415 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 192 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Tenneco Kettering has more employees than the Shock absorbers, automotive, truck, and 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
2023 1.2 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.9 0.9 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336330 · OH · Dayton

134 Shock absorbers, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 599 employers in Dayton, OH · 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 thyssenkrupp Bilstein of America Main Plant 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tenneco 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Karl Manufacturing Solutions 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chassix - Stevensville 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Energizer Holdings - Global Auto Care - Dayton 415 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tigerpoly Mfg., Inc. 415 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lyndhurst Campus 415 FTE
STATE-SIZE Strongsville Fam Hlth Surg Ctr 415 FTE
CITY-NEAR Miami Valley Hospital 6,862 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Dayton 5,359 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dayton Children's Hospital 3,590 FTE
CITY-NEAR CareSource Management Services LLC 3,172 FTE
NAT-TCR City Wide Facility Solutions (Phoenix) 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Rare Parts, Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Westcoast Mechanical Contractors, LLC. 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR JM Eagle 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE BD Biosciences 415 FTE
NAT-SIZE Par Sterile Products LLC 415 FTE
NAT-SIZE BT Beltsville 415 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vineyard Management 415 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, 2022. 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.