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

thyssenkrupp Bilstein Main Plant

Hamilton, OH · ~653 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

thyssenkrupp Bilstein Main Plant runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Shock absorbers, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

thyssenkrupp Bilstein Main Plant: 1.5 TCR = 28% of Shock absorbers, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

thyssenkrupp Bilstein Main Plant safety composite

thyssenkrupp Bilstein Main Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.5

2016→2017

thyssenkrupp Bilstein Main Plant injury rate improved

thyssenkrupp Bilstein Main Plant's TCR fell 1.5 from 2.3 in 2016 to 0.8 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 2.3 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.3 · 2017=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 28% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #5/18
  • PHOTO Federal-Mogul Maryvi…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~653 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Federal-Mogul Maryville Manufacturing (0.0 TCR gap)

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thyssenkrupp Bilstein Main Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows thyssenkrupp Bilstein Main Plant averages 1.5 TCR (28% 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

thyssenkrupp Bilstein Main Plant TCR series: 2016=2.3 · 2017=0.8 · BLS 5.4

Where thyssenkrupp Bilstein Main Plant falls in its industry

134 Shock absorbers, automotive, t establishments

Safer than 72% 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 #5 safest of 18 Shock absorbers, automotive, t employers in Ohio.

thyssenkrupp Bilstein Main Plant (653 employees, TCR 1.5) 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 thyssenkrupp Bilstein Main Plant
thyssenkrupp Bilstein Main Plant (653 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 192 employees and a TCR of 2.7

thyssenkrupp Bilstein Main Plant 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
2017 0.8 0.3 6 0 0
2016 2.3 1.4 16 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336330 · OH · Hamilton

134 Shock absorbers, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 153 employers in Hamilton, 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 Federal-Mogul Maryville Manufacturing 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wheel Pros 1057-Teraflex Dannon 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bilstein Shock Absorbers 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Magna 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE GEM Industrial Inc. - Walbridge Office 652 FTE
STATE-SIZE G & J Pepsi Cola Bottlers-Columbus, OH 652 FTE
STATE-SIZE StandardAero-Components Services 652 FTE
STATE-SIZE ESI Inc. 655 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Hamilton Hospital 1,011 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3638-F 890 FTE
CITY-NEAR thyssenkrupp Bilstein of America 657 FTE
CITY-NEAR thyssenkrupp Bilstein of America Main Plant 594 FTE
NAT-TCR PEI-Genesis 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ahlstrom Filtration LLC - Madisonville 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Yokohama Industries Americas Inc. Division 1 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR South Houston Complex EN40 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Transport Solutions NA and EMEA : MFG-Arecibo-Puerto Rico 653 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hicksville (Ny54) 653 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bethesda Hospital 653 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0050-Atrium Health Lincoln 653 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.