Bendix Commercial sustains world-class safety performance
by CM Staff
Canadian sites of the commercial vehicle system maker are consistent no-injury performers
ELYRIA, Ohio — Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC (Bendix) logged one of its safest years in 2019, following its safest year ever, achieved in 2018.
The manufacturer of commercial vehicle systems scored a total case incident rate (TCIR) of recordable injuries of 0.64. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the TCIR for similar manufacturing facilities in 2018 was 3.2. TCIR measures the total number of recordable injuries per 100 workers per year.
Of Bendix’s 21 North American locations, more than half achieved significant safety milestones in 2019. Eleven sites surpassed the one-year mark without a recordable injury. Other noteworthy milestones for length of time free of recordable injuries include two years at Plant 3 in the Acuña, Mexico, campus and the R&D center in Kalamazoo, Mich.; and the one-year mark for the company’s newest locations in Monterrey, Mexico, and Lebanon, Tenn.
Consistently top-performing locations include Montreal, which completed more than 16 years of operations with no recordable injuries; and the Mexico City, Mexico, and Vancouver locations, which have experienced no recordable injuries for more than 11 years.
Other noteworthy milestones for length of time free of recordable injuries included nine years in Sparks, Nev., and eight years in Irvine, Calif.
