Ductile iron foundries · Indiana

AAM New Castle

New Castle, IN · ~318 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AAM New Castle runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Ductile iron foundries workplace, earning a grade C.

AAM New Castle: 2.9 TCR = 88% of Ductile iron foundries BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AAM New Castle safety composite

AAM New Castle scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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%).

Rising injury rate

AAM New Castle: 2.5 → 3.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 3.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.13× in 2018

AAM New Castle's TCR rose 1.3 from 2.5 in 2016 to 3.8 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331511 · New Castle, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 88% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #4/22
  • PHOTO McWane Ductile New J…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~318 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: McWane Ductile New Jersey (0.0 TCR gap)

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AAM New Castle in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AAM New Castle averages 2.9 TCR (88% of the Ductile iron foundries BLS benchmark).

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

AAM New Castle TCR series: 2016=2.5 · 2017=2.5 · 2018=3.8 · BLS 3.3

Where AAM New Castle falls in its industry

272 Ductile iron foundries establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 22 Ductile iron foundries employers in Indiana.

AAM New Castle (318 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate AAM New Castle
AAM New Castle (318 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2

AAM New Castle has more employees than the Ductile iron foundries median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.2. 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 3.8 3.3 15 0 0
2017 2.5 0.3 10 0 0
2016 2.5 0.3 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331511 · IN · New Castle

272 Ductile iron foundries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 44 employers in New Castle, IN · 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 McWane Ductile New Jersey 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Glidewell Specialties Foundry 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mapleton Foundry 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR McWane Ductile - New Jersey 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Vectren Corporation - One Vectren Square 318 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rochester Metal Products 318 FTE
STATE-SIZE Donaldson Company - Frankfort, IN 318 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1647 318 FTE
CITY-NEAR Henry County Memorial Hospital 860 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boar's Head - New Castle 530 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4238-175 409 FTE
CITY-NEAR 175 951 - GEO EASTERN REGIONAL OFFICE-NEW CASTLE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY 343 FTE
NAT-TCR Hopewell Mill 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 2358 Shoppers-Mt Vernon (Sv 052041) 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Michaels Artistree 6611 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Liberty View Brooklyn 3102 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE OKC Office 318 FTE
NAT-SIZE Asheville (Ncash) 318 FTE
NAT-SIZE SMG - U.S. Bank Stadium 318 FTE
NAT-SIZE Electrical 318 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.