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

Tenneco - Kettering Operations

Kettering, OH · ~519 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tenneco - Kettering Operations runs at 36% 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.

Tenneco - Kettering Operations: 2.0 TCR = 36% of Automotive, truck and bus steering assemblies and parts manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tenneco - Kettering Operations safety composite

Tenneco - Kettering Operations scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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

Tenneco - Kettering Operations: 1.3 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 2.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2019

Tenneco - Kettering Operations's TCR rose 1.3 from 1.3 in 2018 to 2.6 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 2.0 · 36% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #6/18
  • PHOTO SC - Steering Columns
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~519 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SC - Steering Columns (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tenneco - Kettering Operations in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tenneco - Kettering Operations averages 2.0 TCR (36% of the Automotive, truck and bus steering assemblies and parts manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Tenneco - Kettering Operations TCR series: 2018=1.3 · 2019=2.6 · BLS 5.4

Where Tenneco - Kettering Operations falls in its industry

134 Automotive, truck and bus stee establishments

Safer than 61% 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 #6 safest of 18 Automotive, truck and bus stee employers in Ohio.

Tenneco - Kettering Operations (519 employees, TCR 2.0) 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 Operations
Tenneco - Kettering Operations (519 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 192 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Tenneco - Kettering Operations 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
2019 2.6 1.3 17 1 0
2018 1.3 0.4 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336330 · OH · Kettering

134 Automotive, truck and bus steering assemblies and parts manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 42 employers in Kettering, 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 SC - Steering Columns 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR STEMCO 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blackstone 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Minimizer LLC 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Faircrest Steel Plant 519 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMZL : DCL3 519 FTE
STATE-SIZE George J. Igel & Co., Inc. 518 FTE
STATE-SIZE HC Companies - Middlefield 520 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kettering Medical Center 5,259 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3638-K 3,317 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASHN 1,048 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alternate Solutions 1,012 FTE
NAT-TCR 16966 Dallas Equipment Fulfillment Center 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Comm HVAC NA and EMEA : SVC-Northwest District : SVC-Seattle WA-USA 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Black Diamond 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR UCI Richmond 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dubuque Customer Service 519 FTE
NAT-SIZE TriMet Powell Operations 519 FTE
NAT-SIZE MRPG 519 FTE
NAT-SIZE Patheon Thermo Fisher 519 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: 2019, 2018. 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.