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

B&B Manufacturing, Inc.

Name: B&B Manufacturing, Inc. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Laporte, IN · ~92 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.8
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

B&B Manufacturing, Inc. runs at 114% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Ball joints (except aircraft, motor vehicle) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

B&B Manufacturing, Inc.: 3.8 TCR = 114% of Ball joints (except aircraft, motor vehicle) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

B&B Manufacturing, Inc. safety composite

B&B Manufacturing, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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).

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 3.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers
DART rate: F 4.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

B&B Manufacturing, Inc.: 2.0 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 4.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.18× in 2019

B&B Manufacturing, Inc.'s TCR rose 2.4 from 2.0 in 2016 to 4.4 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.8 TCR. In 2019, DART was 1.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333613 · Laporte, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 114% of ind

DART 4.4 DART
RANK P42
PHOTO Kingsbury, Inc.
BOOK 3y book
INJ 11 inj
SIZE ~92 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kingsbury, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Main Building

3.9
This site

3.8
Kingsbury, Inc

3.7
Renold

3.7
MIBUSG

3.5

What this shows B&B Manufacturing, Inc. averages 3.8 TCR (114% of the Ball joints (except aircraft, motor vehicle) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

B&B Manufacturing, Inc. TCR series: 2016=2 · 2018=4.8 · 2019=4.4 · BLS 3.3

Where B&B Manufacturing, Inc. falls in its industry

111 Ball joints (except aircraft, establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

B&B Manufacturing, Inc. (92 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.4

B&B Manufacturing, Inc. has more employees than the Ball joints (except aircraft, motor vehi 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
2019	4.4	4.4	5	0
2018	4.8	3.8	4	1
2016	2.0	2.0	2	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333613 · IN · Laporte

111 Ball joints (except aircraft, motor vehicle) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 49 employers in Laporte, IN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Kingsbury, Inc.	OSHKOSH, WI	3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Renold	WESTFIELD, NY	3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Main Building	OSHKOSH, WI	3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	MIBUSG	GRAFTON, WI	3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Windy Ridge Dairy, LLC	FAIR OAKS	92 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Riverstart III Solar Farm	MODOC	92 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Continental Electric Company	GARY	92 FTE
STATE-SIZE	New Indy Containerboard Hartford City Mill	HARTFORD CITY	92 FTE
CITY-NEAR	LaPorte Hospital	Laporte	927 FTE
CITY-NEAR	American Licorice Company - La Porte, IN	Laporte	380 FTE
CITY-NEAR	LaPorte	Laporte	327 FTE
CITY-NEAR	LaPorte Physician Network	Laporte	280 FTE
NAT-TCR	Forward Management, Inc.	Madison, WI	3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	J Brand, Inc.	Los Angeles, CA	3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Lake Erie Correctional Inst	Conneaut, OH	3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Circle Graphics - Burbank DBA Imagic	Burbank, CA	3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Covanta Fairfax, Inc.	Lorton, VA	92 FTE
NAT-SIZE	CS Wholesale Grocers : South Hatfield, MA (GDC)	South Hatfield, MA	92 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Leicht Transfer & Storage - De Pere	De Pere, WI	92 FTE
NAT-SIZE	LANXESS Solutions US Inc.	Gastonia, NC	92 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, 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.