Other Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturing · Kentucky

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bardstown II

Bardstown, KY · ~56 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bardstown II runs at 98% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Other Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bardstown II: 5.3 TCR = 98% of Other Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

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

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bardstown II scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

−10.1

2016→2018

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bardstown II injury rate improved

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bardstown II's TCR fell 10.1 from 11.9 in 2016 to 1.9 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 11.9 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=11.9 · 2017=2.1 · 2018=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336390 · Bardstown, KY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.3 · 98% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #44/55
  • PHOTO Rocore-Franklin
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rocore-Franklin (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bardstown II 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 II averages 5.3 TCR (98% of the Other Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturing 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 II TCR series: 2016=11.9 · 2017=2.1 · 2018=1.9 · BLS 5.4

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

772 Other Motor Vehicle Parts Manu establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #44 safest of 55 Other Motor Vehicle Parts Manu employers in Kentucky.

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bardstown II (56 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bardstown II
Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bardstown II (56 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bardstown II has fewer employees than the Other Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2017 2.1 2.1 1 0 0
2016 11.9 6.0 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336390 · KY · Bardstown

772 Other Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturing 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 Rocore-Franklin 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Donaldson Company- Stevens Point 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saris Equipment LLC 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR VWTN 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sullivan & Cozart, Inc. 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Verst Langley 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pace Contracting LLC 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bluegrass Contracting Corporation 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Fuji Seal 660 FTE
CITY-NEAR Heaven Hill Brands 505 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bardstown I 498 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tower Automotive Operation USA, LLC - Bardstown 1 494 FTE
NAT-TCR dd's DISCOUNTS Store 5113 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 250-Uniontown 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Spelts Schultz Truss 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR FFD-Hamilton Place (dba Famous Dave`s) 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE APCO 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Omaha South 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kenworth of Dayton 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Imperial Dade North Carolina 56 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.