Ball joints (except aircraft, motor vehicle) manufacturing · Indiana

Auburn Gear, LLC

Auburn, IN · ~162 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Auburn Gear, LLC runs at 79% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Ball joints (except aircraft, motor vehicle) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Auburn Gear, LLC: 2.6 TCR = 79% of Ball joints (except aircraft, motor vehicle) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Auburn Gear, LLC safety composite

Auburn Gear, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.7

2017→2024

Auburn Gear, LLC injury rate improved

Auburn Gear, LLC's TCR fell 4.7 from 4.7 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 5.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.7 · 2019=5.0 · 2020=0.7 · 2021=2.9 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333613 · Auburn, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 79% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P67
  • PHOTO Logan Clutch Corpora…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~162 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Logan Clutch Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Auburn Gear, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Auburn Gear, LLC averages 2.6 TCR (79% of the Ball joints (except aircraft, motor vehicle) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Auburn Gear, LLC TCR series: 2017=4.7 · 2019=5 · 2020=0.7 · 2021=2.9 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Auburn Gear, LLC falls in its industry

111 Ball joints (except aircraft, establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Auburn Gear, LLC (162 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Auburn Gear, LLC
Auburn Gear, LLC (162 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Auburn Gear, LLC has more employees than the Ball joints (except aircraft, motor vehi median and a lower 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 2.4 0.5 5 0 0
2022 2.6 1.3 2 2 0
2021 2.9 1.2 5 0 0
2020 0.7 0.0 1 0 0
2019 5.0 4.3 7 1 0
2017 4.7 2.7 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333613 · IN · Auburn

111 Ball joints (except aircraft, motor vehicle) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 50 employers in Auburn, 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 Logan Clutch Corporation 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Miba Industrial Bearings US (Hosuton) LLC 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Renold Westfield 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Martin Sprocket & Gear 12 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Royal - South Bend 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coreslab Structures 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE Novelis 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE NT Supply and NFS - Greenwood 162 FTE
CITY-NEAR DeKalb Health 641 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 6074 575 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cooper Standard Automotive 503 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6074 502 FTE
NAT-TCR GEDIA Michigan LLC 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Cambria Suites South Windsor 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant 2741 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Long Beach Marriott 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Usesi Cdcct 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ew Ne Stoma 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE R.K. Bass Electric, Inc. 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crisdel Group 162 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.