Oshkosh Corp (OSK)

Access equipment, defense and vocational trucks. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 17, 2026. Ranked 75 of the 95 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

18,400 employees, 11,750 of them in production, making aerial work platforms, military vehicles and fire, refuse and mixer trucks, split by the segment descriptions since the filing counts no employees by segment.

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 17% now, 25% at the end of 2027, 29% at the end of 2028, 30% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 30% desk work, 17% people work and 53% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 70% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 24% becomes checking a model's work and 4% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

18,400 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). 2,700 of 18,400 employees are located outside the U.S. (stated), so about 15,700 are in the United States.

The filing: “In 2025, the Company cared for over 26,000 people, including team members and their families, on its medical plan.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 11,750 of 18,400 employees are production employees; about 1,950 U.S. employees (13% of U.S. employees) are represented by unions, the UAW the largest with 1,150; about 65% of the 2,700 employees outside the U.S. are represented by works councils or unions; the production count is a function count, not a segment split.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Machinery Manufacturing (3331, 3332, 3334, and 3339 only), largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• Caterpillar Inc. (CAT, 118,000 employees)18% now, 37% by 2028
• Deere & Company (DE, 73,100 employees)20% now, 37% by 2028
• Parker-Hannifin Corporation (PH, 59,850 employees)18% now, 38% by 2028
• Carrier Global Corporation (CARR, 47,000 employees)19% now, 36% by 2028
• Trane Technologies plc (TT, 44,000 employees)18% now, 33% by 2028
• Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. (SWK, 43,500 employees)19% now, 34% by 2028
• Illinois Tool Works Inc. (ITW, 43,000 employees)19% now, 37% by 2028
• Applied Materials, Inc. (AMAT, 36,500 employees)19% now, 36% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

9 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in nine sentences: developing and applying technologies in autonomy, artificial intelligence, connectivity and electrification with its customers, leveraging them for improvements in safety, productivity and cost of ownership, and growing its intellectual property portfolio in those areas.

• “As an innovator and integrator, we work directly with our customers to solve real-world challenges - developing and applying breakthrough technologies in autonomy, artificial intelligence, connectivity and electrification.”
• “The Company leverages disruptive technologies - including autonomy, artificial intelligence, connectivity and electrification - to unlock step-change improvements in safety, productivity, sustainability and the total cost of ownership.”
• “The Company expects to continue growing its intellectual property portfolio as it pursues advanced innovations in autonomy, artificial intelligence, connectivity and electrification.”
• “Our use of artificial intelligence and autonomy technologies may expose us to additional risks and may not deliver the benefits we anticipate.”
• “We are developing, integrating and using artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomy in certain products, services and internal operations.”

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 20212median 0
• Fiscal 20220median 0
• Fiscal 20233median 1
• Fiscal 20240median 4
• Fiscal 20259median 10

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• The filing counts no employees by segment, so the shares are by description (c); the data service's segment table dates from 2018 and is not used.
• The collector's 26,000 was the number of people on the medical plan, including families; the filing's workforce count is 18,400 (rule 2).

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-26-054061, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.