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

Tenneco

Napoleon, OH · ~203 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tenneco runs at 78% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Shock absorbers, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Tenneco: 4.2 TCR = 78% of Shock absorbers, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tenneco safety composite

Tenneco scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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: 4.4 → 5.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 6.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.77× in 2019

Tenneco's TCR rose 0.7 from 4.4 in 2016 to 5.1 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.5 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 4.2 · 78% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #12/18
  • PHOTO Automotive Steering …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~203 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Automotive Steering Columns, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tenneco in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tenneco averages 4.2 TCR (78% 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 TCR series: 2016=4.4 · 2017=6.5 · 2018=0.8 · 2019=5.1 · BLS 5.4

Where Tenneco falls in its industry

134 Shock absorbers, automotive, t establishments

Safer than 28% 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 #12 safest of 18 Shock absorbers, automotive, t employers in Ohio.

Tenneco (203 employees, TCR 4.2) 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
Tenneco (203 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 192 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Tenneco has more employees than the Shock absorbers, automotive, truck, and 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
2019 5.1 3.2 11 0 0
2018 0.8 0.4 2 0 0
2017 6.5 4.7 10 4 0
2016 4.4 2.5 8 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336330 · OH · Napoleon

134 Shock absorbers, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 51 employers in Napoleon, 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 Automotive Steering Columns, LLC 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR ZF Marysville 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kendallville Plant 3 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dexter Silent Drive 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Stingray Pressure Pumping 203 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mechanical Services & Design 203 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wausau Paper - Middletown, Ohio 203 FTE
STATE-SIZE Casad Company Inc 203 FTE
CITY-NEAR Filling Homes 346 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Filling Memorial Home of Mercy, Inc. 345 FTE
CITY-NEAR JAC Products Inc. 284 FTE
CITY-NEAR Napoleon Facility 269 FTE
NAT-TCR Jefferson City - 500 W Highway 94 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Truesdale Training Facility 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 1855-WIMIL23 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Austin Pipe & Precast 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Clayton Homes Waycross 203 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cen Cal Builders and Developers Inc. 203 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atrium Post Acute Care of Matawan 203 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arthur CUSD #305 203 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, 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.