Motor Vehicle Metal Stamping · Kentucky

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bardstown I

Bardstown, KY · ~498 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bardstown I runs at 53% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Motor Vehicle Metal Stamping workplace, earning a grade B.

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bardstown I: 2.9 TCR = 53% of Motor Vehicle Metal Stamping BLS 5.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bardstown I safety composite

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bardstown I scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bardstown I: 1.8 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 3.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.39× in 2018

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bardstown I's TCR rose 1.1 from 1.8 in 2016 to 3.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.8 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336370 · Bardstown, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.9 · 53% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #11/31
  • PHOTO Shiloh Steel Dr
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~498 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Shiloh Steel Dr (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bardstown I in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bardstown I averages 2.9 TCR (53% of the Motor Vehicle Metal Stamping BLS benchmark).

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

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bardstown I TCR series: 2016=1.8 · 2017=3.8 · 2018=3 · BLS 5.4

Where Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bardstown I falls in its industry

510 Motor Vehicle Metal Stamping establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 31 Motor Vehicle Metal Stamping employers in Kentucky.

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bardstown I (498 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 145 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 024681012 Average employees Total Case Rate Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bardstown I
Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bardstown I (498 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 145 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bardstown I has more employees than the Motor Vehicle Metal Stamping median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2018 3.0 1.1 16 0 0
2017 3.8 2.2 15 4 0
2016 1.8 0.4 8 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336370 · KY · Bardstown

510 Motor Vehicle Metal Stamping employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 70 employers in Bardstown, KY · 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 Shiloh Steel Dr 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metalsa 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR miyama USA, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR A Raymond Tinnerman - Logansport Facility 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Big Ass Fans-Lexington 497 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tower Automotive Operation USA, LLC - Bardstown 1 494 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hydro-Gear, Princeton 493 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kenton County Airport Board / CVG 493 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Fuji Seal 660 FTE
CITY-NEAR Heaven Hill Brands 505 FTE
CITY-NEAR QSI, Inc 469 FTE
CITY-NEAR Barton 1792 Distillery 449 FTE
NAT-TCR Heritage Health - Mt. Sterling 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Rescar - Loc#270 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Elmira Center (Nyelm) 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Victoria Fine Foods 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Las Vegas North (Nvlas) 498 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corp Off-One Energy Place 498 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lico Steel, Inc. 498 FTE
NAT-SIZE CS Wholesale Grocers : Mauldin, SC (GDC) 498 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: 2018, 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.