Chassis, automobile, manufacturing · Ohio

Tower Automotive

Bellevue, OH · ~350 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tower Automotive runs at 200% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Chassis, automobile, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Tower Automotive: 6.6 TCR = 200% of Chassis, automobile, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tower Automotive safety composite

Tower Automotive scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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).

D

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−8.6

2020→2024

Tower Automotive injury rate improved

Tower Automotive's TCR fell 8.6 from 12.1 in 2020 to 3.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 12.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=12.1 · 2021=5.1 · 2022=6.5 · 2023=5.8 · 2024=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336111 · Bellevue, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.6 · 200% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #12/15
  • PHOTO Driverge 866 W. Wilb…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 98 inj
  • SIZE ~350 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Driverge 866 W. Wilbeth (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tower Automotive in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tower Automotive averages 6.6 TCR (200% of the Chassis, automobile, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Tower Automotive TCR series: 2020=12.1 · 2021=5.1 · 2022=6.5 · 2023=5.8 · 2024=3.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Tower Automotive falls in its industry

158 Chassis, automobile, manufactu establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

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 15 Chassis, automobile, manufactu employers in Ohio.

Tower Automotive (350 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 366 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05,00010,00015,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Tower Automotive
Tower Automotive (350 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 366 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Tower Automotive has fewer employees than the Chassis, automobile, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 3.5 1.6 13 0 0
2023 5.8 4.1 20 1 0
2022 6.5 3.8 19 0 0
2021 5.1 2.7 17 0 0
2020 12.1 6.8 29 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336111 · OH · Bellevue

158 Chassis, automobile, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 27 employers in Bellevue, 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 Driverge 866 W. Wilbeth 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR VWGoA Fort Worth PDC 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aria Group, Inc 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Driverge - Chico 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Freshway 350 FTE
STATE-SIZE AJ Rose Manufacturing 350 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 5409 350 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1839 350 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Bellevue Hospital 383 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bellevue 381 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wilbert Plastic Services- Bellevue, OH 253 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amcor Rigid Packaging 220 FTE
NAT-TCR City of Fairfax Property Yard 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR DOT Bethesda Transp Depot 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 872 - Pleasant Prairie Fresh Str 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Berd Electric LLC 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE InvenSense Inc 350 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kraft Heinz 350 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atlanta Beverage Company 350 FTE
NAT-SIZE TBG2 350 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, 2021, 2020. 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.