Fences and gates (except wire), metal, manufacturing · Indiana

Applegate Livestock Equipment

Union City, IN · ~75 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Applegate Livestock Equipment runs at 236% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fences and gates (except wire), metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Applegate Livestock Equipment: 7.8 TCR = 236% of Fences and gates (except wire), metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Applegate Livestock Equipment safety composite

Applegate Livestock Equipment scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Applegate Livestock Equipment: 3.0 → 14.2 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 14.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.68× in 2019

Applegate Livestock Equipment's TCR rose 11.2 from 3.0 in 2016 to 14.2 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332323 · Union City, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 236% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #6/8
  • PHOTO SUNSET RAIL INC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~75 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SUNSET RAIL INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Applegate Livestock Equipment in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Applegate Livestock Equipment averages 7.8 TCR (236% of the Fences and gates (except wire), metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Applegate Livestock Equipment TCR series: 2016=3 · 2017=12.5 · 2018=1.4 · 2019=14.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Applegate Livestock Equipment falls in its industry

309 Fences and gates (except wire) establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 8 Fences and gates (except wire) employers in Indiana.

Applegate Livestock Equipment (75 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Applegate Livestock Equipment
Applegate Livestock Equipment (75 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Applegate Livestock Equipment has more employees than the Fences and gates (except wire), metal, m 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
2019 14.2 5.3 8 0 0
2018 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2017 12.5 11.0 8 0 0
2016 3.0 1.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332323 · IN · Union City

309 Fences and gates (except wire), metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 4 employers in Union City, 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 SUNSET RAIL INC 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ARCHITECTURAL SYSTEMS INC - Aurora 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Steel Fabricators, LLC 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Airtec Corporation 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE CenterPoint Energy - FB Culley 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Graber Crews 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Precision Wall Systems, Inc. 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main Office 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR Frank Miller Lumber Company 155 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cardinal Ethanol, LLC 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR UNION CITY 21 FTE
NAT-TCR Management of Transportation Services, Inc 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 60-Philadelphia Terminal 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Summit 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR AUCP Main Office 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bold Rock Hard Cider - VA 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE ECA Medical Instruments 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE 049 ABC Supply Co., Inc 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE GRG Las Vegas LLC 75 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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