Automotive, truck and bus steering assemblies and parts manufacturing · Indiana

American Keeper Corporation

New Castle, IN · ~32 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

American Keeper Corporation runs at 117% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Automotive, truck and bus steering assemblies and parts manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

American Keeper Corporation: 6.3 TCR = 117% of Automotive, truck and bus steering assemblies and parts manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

American Keeper Corporation safety composite

American Keeper Corporation scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.2

2016→2023

American Keeper Corporation injury rate improved

American Keeper Corporation's TCR fell 2.2 from 2.2 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 17.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.2 · 2017=11.6 · 2019=12.9 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=17.6 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336330 · New Castle, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 6.3 · 117% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/7
  • PHOTO 1007 Pireway Road, T…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1007 Pireway Road, Tabor City, NC 28463 (0.1 TCR gap)

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American Keeper Corporation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows American Keeper Corporation averages 6.3 TCR (117% of the Automotive, truck and bus steering assemblies and parts manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

American Keeper Corporation TCR series: 2016=2.2 · 2017=11.6 · 2019=12.9 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=17.6 · 2023=0 · BLS 5.4

Where American Keeper Corporation falls in its industry

134 Automotive, truck and bus stee establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 7 Automotive, truck and bus stee employers in Indiana.

American Keeper Corporation (32 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 192 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate American Keeper Corporation
American Keeper Corporation (32 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 192 employees and a TCR of 2.7

American Keeper Corporation has fewer employees than the Automotive, truck and bus steering assem median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 17.6 0.0 4 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 12.9 0.0 4 0 0
2017 11.6 2.3 5 0 0
2016 2.2 2.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336330 · IN · New Castle

134 Automotive, truck and bus steering assemblies and parts manufacturing 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 1007 Pireway Road, Tabor City, NC 28463 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Busche - Southfield 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR ZF Chassis Components 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spray Control Systems Inc 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE R. Gallagher Generating Station 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aurora 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jasper County REMC Headquarters 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Indiana American Water-Northwest District Borman Park Water Treatment Plant 32 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 Plainwell Pines Nursing & Rehabilitation Community 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Southern States Georgetown Coop 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR CA 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Armstrong Garden Centers 707 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1268 PYP Stanton 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Saltillo 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Middletown, NY 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE V.F Landscape Service, Inc. 32 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, 2020, 2019, 2017, 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.