Chassis, automobile, manufacturing · Ohio

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bellevue

Bellevue, OH · ~381 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bellevue runs at 317% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Chassis, automobile, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bellevue: 10.4 TCR = 317% of Chassis, automobile, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bellevue safety composite

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bellevue scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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

−13.8

2016→2019

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bellevue injury rate improved

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bellevue's TCR fell 13.8 from 19.3 in 2016 to 5.4 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 19.3 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=19.3 · 2017=8.4 · 2018=8.6 · 2019=5.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 10.4 · 317% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #14/15
  • PHOTO Etowah Plant
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 156 inj
  • SIZE ~381 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Etowah Plant (0.1 TCR gap)

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Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bellevue 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 - Bellevue averages 10.4 TCR (317% 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 Operations USA I, LLC - Bellevue TCR series: 2016=19.3 · 2017=8.4 · 2018=8.6 · 2019=5.4 · BLS 3.3

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

158 Chassis, automobile, manufactu establishments

Safer than 11% 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 #14 safest of 15 Chassis, automobile, manufactu employers in Ohio.

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bellevue (381 employees, TCR 10.4) 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 Operations USA I, LLC - Bellevue
Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bellevue (381 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 366 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bellevue has more 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
2019 5.4 1.7 21 1 0
2018 8.6 6.1 37 0 0
2017 8.4 6.3 35 5 0
2016 19.3 13.7 63 27 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 Etowah Plant 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR WGS Athens - Ironcraft 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lansing Delta Township Assembly 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Toyota Motor Mfg Indiana, Inc 9.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Great Day Improvements Corporate 381 FTE
STATE-SIZE Exal Corporation 381 FTE
STATE-SIZE OH Norwood 4620 Forest Ave (NOW) 381 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lima Facility 381 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Bellevue Hospital 383 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tower Automotive 350 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wilbert Plastic Services- Bellevue, OH 253 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amcor Rigid Packaging 220 FTE
NAT-TCR Manor Care Health Services - Fair Oaks 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : DET1 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR International Aero Servicesllc 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR RRC - Colby 10.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE CRTSCAHN 381 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilltop Health Services Corporation- 625 27 1/2 Road 381 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vala's Pumpkin Farm 381 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atlanta - MB 381 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.