Air brake systems and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · Kansas

Tramec Sloan Iola

Iola, KS · ~59 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tramec Sloan Iola runs at 48% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Air brake systems and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Tramec Sloan Iola: 2.6 TCR = 48% of Air brake systems and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tramec Sloan Iola safety composite

Tramec Sloan Iola scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−1.1

2016→2020

Tramec Sloan Iola injury rate improved

Tramec Sloan Iola's TCR fell 1.1 from 2.9 in 2016 to 1.9 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.4 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.9 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=4.4 · 2019=3.8 · 2020=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336340 · Iola, KS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 2.6 · 48% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P50
  • PHOTO Meritor Heavy Vehicl…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tramec Sloan Iola in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tramec Sloan Iola averages 2.6 TCR (48% of the Air brake systems and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Tramec Sloan Iola TCR series: 2016=2.9 · 2017=0 · 2018=4.4 · 2019=3.8 · 2020=1.9 · BLS 5.4

Where Tramec Sloan Iola falls in its industry

133 Air brake systems and parts, a establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Tramec Sloan Iola (59 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 150 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Tramec Sloan Iola
Tramec Sloan Iola (59 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 150 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Tramec Sloan Iola has fewer employees than the Air brake systems and parts, automotive, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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
2020 1.9 0.0 1 0 0
2019 3.8 1.3 3 0 0
2018 4.4 0.0 3 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 2.9 2.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336340 · KS · Iola

133 Air brake systems and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 19 employers in Iola, KS · 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 Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems LLC 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR CNJ, Tech Inc. 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Continental Automotive Systems, Inc 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Indian Head Industries, Inc. / MGM Brakes 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Southland Service Center 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smoky Hill Construction 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE KDI Operating Company 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Young's Welding, Inc. 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gates 462 FTE
CITY-NEAR Iola 458 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gates Corporation Iola KS 332 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1187 187 FTE
NAT-TCR Fontana of Texas 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Markem-Imaje Corporation - Field Operations 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Airdraulics Inc 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Humana Pharmacy 2 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Latham Pool Products- Plainfield 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Harvard 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Golden Corral 584 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Market - Store 777 59 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.