Hitches, trailer, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · Indiana

Aero Industries - Indianapolis Facility

Indianapolis, IN · ~171 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.0
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Aero Industries - Indianapolis Facility runs at 221% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hitches, trailer, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Aero Industries - Indianapolis Facility: 12.0 TCR = 221% of Hitches, trailer, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Aero Industries - Indianapolis Facility safety composite

Aero Industries - Indianapolis Facility scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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).

F

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Aero Industries - Indianapolis Facility: 10.4 → 13.5 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 13.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.13× in 2018

Aero Industries - Indianapolis Facility's TCR rose 3.1 from 10.4 in 2016 to 13.5 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336390 · Indianapolis, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 12.0 · 221% of ind

  • DART 13.5 DART
  • RANK #64/66
  • PHOTO ACSCO Products, Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 40 inj
  • SIZE ~171 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ACSCO Products, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Aero Industries - Indianapolis Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Aero Industries - Indianapolis Facility averages 12.0 TCR (221% of the Hitches, trailer, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Aero Industries - Indianapolis Facility TCR series: 2016=10.4 · 2018=13.5 · BLS 5.4

Where Aero Industries - Indianapolis Facility falls in its industry

772 Hitches, trailer, automotive, establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #64 safest of 66 Hitches, trailer, automotive, employers in Indiana.

Aero Industries - Indianapolis Facility (171 employees, TCR 12.0) 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 Aero Industries - Indianapolis Facility
Aero Industries - Indianapolis Facility (171 employees, TCR 12.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Aero Industries - Indianapolis Facility has more employees than the Hitches, trailer, automotive, truck, and median and a higher 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 13.5 13.5 25 0 0
2016 10.4 9.7 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336390 · IN · Indianapolis

772 Hitches, trailer, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 2,074 employers in Indianapolis, 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 ACSCO Products, Inc 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Horizon Global Americas, Edgerton DC 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR APMM 11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Factory Pipe, LLC 11.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE CARMEL IN - 3083 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE 024-00762 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE Unit # 1433 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE FedEx 5301 LINCOLN WAY WEST 171 FTE
CITY-NEAR Indiana University Health, Inc 7,874 FTE
CITY-NEAR Methodist Hospital 6,862 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eli Lilly - Lilly Corp Center 6,482 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lilly Technology Center 6,472 FTE
NAT-TCR City of St Clair Shores Fire Department 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 0302 - Tucson North, Az 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Advanced Disposal - Norristown Hauling 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Belvidere Plant 12.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Weck's 4th Street 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pitt Ohio - West Middlesex 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hickory Ridge Nursing & Rehab Center 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holiday Care Center, Inc. 171 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, 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.