Sheet metal forming machines manufacturing · Indiana

Ashley Ward, Inc.

Elkhart, IN · ~25 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ashley Ward, Inc. runs at 117% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Sheet metal forming machines manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Ashley Ward, Inc.: 3.9 TCR = 117% of Sheet metal forming machines manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ashley Ward, Inc. safety composite

Ashley Ward, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

Ashley Ward, Inc.: 3.2 → 10.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 10.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2021

Ashley Ward, Inc.'s TCR rose 7.5 from 3.2 in 2017 to 10.7 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333517 · Elkhart, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 117% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/12
  • PHOTO Oak Press Solutions …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Oak Press Solutions Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ashley Ward, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ashley Ward, Inc. averages 3.9 TCR (117% of the Sheet metal forming machines manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ashley Ward, Inc. TCR series: 2017=3.2 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=5.3 · 2021=10.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Ashley Ward, Inc. falls in its industry

391 Sheet metal forming machines m establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

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 12 Sheet metal forming machines m employers in Indiana.

Ashley Ward, Inc. (25 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ashley Ward, Inc.
Ashley Ward, Inc. (25 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Ashley Ward, Inc. has fewer employees than the Sheet metal forming machines manufacturi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2021 10.7 0.0 2 0 0
2020 5.3 5.3 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 3.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333517 · IN · Elkhart

391 Sheet metal forming machines manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 401 employers in Elkhart, 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 Oak Press Solutions Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR US Tool Group- Lake Charles 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR K & Y Manufacturing, LLC 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sawyer Manufacturing Company 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Vincennes Hatchery 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE U.S. Aggregates, Inc - Corporate 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE RWE Renewables Services LLC-Wildcat 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Franklin (Pwr Del-IN) 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Forest River, Inc. 12,549 FTE
CITY-NEAR THOR MOTOR COACH 2,437 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elkhart Community Schools 1,892 FTE
CITY-NEAR HRV LLC 1,692 FTE
NAT-TCR Camarero Race Trak Corporation 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR West Fraser - Blackshear 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Lyons Township HSD 204 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Rost 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rush Medical Clinic Philadelphia 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Joseph Hospital OB/GYN 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Keith Titus Corp- Oswego Location 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE 112 Bakersfield, CA (RDC) 25 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.