Belt conveyor systems manufacturing · Indiana

Bastian Custom Automation

Greenfield, IN · ~123 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bastian Custom Automation runs at 132% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Belt conveyor systems manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Bastian Custom Automation: 4.3 TCR = 132% of Belt conveyor systems manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bastian Custom Automation safety composite

Bastian Custom Automation scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Bastian Custom Automation: 2.7 → 3.6 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.62× in 2024

Bastian Custom Automation's TCR rose 0.9 from 2.7 in 2020 to 3.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333922 · Greenfield, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 132% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #9/14
  • PHOTO INDUSTRIAL KINETICS
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~123 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: INDUSTRIAL KINETICS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bastian Custom Automation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bastian Custom Automation averages 4.3 TCR (132% of the Belt conveyor systems manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bastian Custom Automation TCR series: 2020=2.7 · 2021=6 · 2022=3.6 · 2023=5.9 · 2024=3.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Bastian Custom Automation falls in its industry

361 Belt conveyor systems manufact establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 14 Belt conveyor systems manufact employers in Indiana.

Bastian Custom Automation (123 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 024681012 Average employees Total Case Rate Bastian Custom Automation
Bastian Custom Automation (123 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Bastian Custom Automation has more employees than the Belt conveyor systems manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 3.6 2.7 4 0 0
2023 5.9 5.9 6 0 0
2022 3.6 0.0 4 0 0
2021 6.0 5.0 6 0 0
2020 2.7 1.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333922 · IN · Greenfield

361 Belt conveyor systems manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 126 employers in Greenfield, 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 INDUSTRIAL KINETICS 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fenner Dunlop Americas - Northern Appalachia 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR FI 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR UMD Automated Systems, Inc. 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2681_5131 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fort Wayne Corporate 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Precision Plastics of Indiana, Inc. 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brinco Manufacturing Inc. 123 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - MQJ1 2,520 FTE
CITY-NEAR Executive Management Services, Inc 2,096 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elanco Animal Health, Greenfield 1,693 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elanco Headquarters 1,453 FTE
NAT-TCR Reeve-Knight Construction, Inc 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Stephanie Tubbs Jones Hlth Ctr 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Qspac Industries -Nc 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR National Distribution Centers LLC-15970 Mountain Ave 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gum Springs 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross Contracting, Inc. 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fernlea Nurseries- JUP 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fareway Stores, Inc. 153 West Des Moines 123 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.