Other Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturing · Kentucky

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Shepherdsville

Shepherdsville, KY · ~135 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Shepherdsville runs at 40% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Other Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Shepherdsville: 2.2 TCR = 40% of Other Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Shepherdsville safety composite

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Shepherdsville scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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 - Shepherdsville: 1.0 → 3.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 3.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.75× in 2018

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Shepherdsville's TCR rose 2.2 from 1.0 in 2016 to 3.2 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336390 · Shepherdsville, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 2.2 · 40% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #16/55
  • PHOTO Bosch-Albion
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~135 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bosch-Albion (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Shepherdsville 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 - Shepherdsville averages 2.2 TCR (40% 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 - Shepherdsville TCR series: 2016=1 · 2017=2.2 · 2018=3.2 · BLS 5.4

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

772 Other Motor Vehicle Parts Manu establishments

Safer than 68% 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 #16 safest of 55 Other Motor Vehicle Parts Manu employers in Kentucky.

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Shepherdsville (135 employees, TCR 2.2) 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 - Shepherdsville
Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Shepherdsville (135 employees, TCR 2.2) 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 - Shepherdsville has fewer employees than the Other Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturing median and a lower 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 3.2 1.6 6 0 0
2017 2.2 1.5 3 0 0
2016 1.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336390 · KY · Shepherdsville

772 Other Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 77 employers in Shepherdsville, 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 Bosch-Albion 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR L&M Radiator INC 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR AIRCRAFT GEAR CORPORATION 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR SEJONG 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mago 135 FTE
STATE-SIZE BFB 135 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jim Beam Brands-Booker Noe 135 FTE
STATE-SIZE Champion Benton 135 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - SDF9 2,577 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : SDF9 2,077 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : SDF4 929 FTE
CITY-NEAR Magna LVSS 830 FTE
NAT-TCR 23rd Street 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Atrium Post Acute Care of Chilton 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Custom-Crete, San Antonio 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR DBi Miami 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Manor Care Health Services - Montgomeryville 135 FTE
NAT-SIZE Specialty Industries, Inc. 135 FTE
NAT-SIZE Denitech - Coppell 135 FTE
NAT-SIZE Denitech - Fort Worth 135 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.