Foundries, steel investment · Indiana

Aero Metals, Inc

Laporte, IN · ~279 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Aero Metals, Inc runs at 164% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Foundries, steel investment workplace, earning a grade D.

Aero Metals, Inc: 5.4 TCR = 164% of Foundries, steel investment BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Aero Metals, Inc safety composite

Aero Metals, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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).

D

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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%).

Aero Metals, Inc held a steady TCR band

Aero Metals, Inc's TCR held near 0.3 from 5.6 in 2016 to 5.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.6 · 2017=3.7 · 2019=5.9 · 2021=5.4 · 2022=6.6 · 2023=5.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331512 · Laporte, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 164% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK P38
  • PHOTO CounterGravity Centr…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 67 inj
  • SIZE ~279 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CounterGravity Centrifugal Cast Operations (CCO), (FKA ACF) (0.1 TCR gap)

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Aero Metals, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Aero Metals, Inc averages 5.4 TCR (164% of the Foundries, steel investment BLS benchmark).

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

Aero Metals, Inc TCR series: 2016=5.6 · 2017=3.7 · 2019=5.9 · 2021=5.4 · 2022=6.6 · 2023=5.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Aero Metals, Inc falls in its industry

89 Foundries, steel investment establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Aero Metals, Inc (279 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 94 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Aero Metals, Inc
Aero Metals, Inc (279 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 94 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Aero Metals, Inc has more employees than the Foundries, steel investment median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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
2023 5.3 3.1 8 4 0
2022 6.6 3.1 11 6 0
2021 5.4 1.6 6 7 0
2019 5.9 4.4 19 0 0
2017 3.7 3.0 9 2 0
2016 5.6 5.2 14 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331512 · IN · Laporte

89 Foundries, steel investment employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 49 employers in Laporte, 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 CounterGravity Centrifugal Cast Operations (CCO), (FKA ACF) 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Automated Casting Facility 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harbor Castings Inc 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Yamaha Marine Precision Propellers Inc 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Retro Tech Systems 279 FTE
STATE-SIZE FGF 279 FTE
STATE-SIZE Taylor Made - 111 279 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2310 MARTINS SUPERMARKET 279 FTE
CITY-NEAR LaPorte Hospital 927 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Licorice Company - La Porte, IN 380 FTE
CITY-NEAR LaPorte 327 FTE
CITY-NEAR LaPorte Physician Network 280 FTE
NAT-TCR Dugan Production Corp 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Pannier Graphics 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Forks I 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ne Distrib Center (Sutton)-Ma25 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Heightened Security Inc 279 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bay City Mechanical Inc. 279 FTE
NAT-SIZE Central Plant - El Dorado 279 FTE
NAT-SIZE Louis D. Brandeis Hall of Justice 279 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019, 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.