Doors and door frames, plastics, manufacturing · Indiana

Best Formed Plastics

Name: Best Formed Plastics Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Elkhart, IN · ~37 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 7.6
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Best Formed Plastics runs at 230% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Doors and door frames, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Best Formed Plastics: 7.6 TCR = 230% of Doors and door frames, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Best Formed Plastics safety composite

Best Formed Plastics scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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).

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 7.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

Best Formed Plastics: 5.2 → 10.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 10.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Best Formed Plastics's TCR rose 4.8 from 5.2 in 2021 to 10.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Elkhart, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.6 · 230% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #119/143
PHOTO Norwesco - Lancaster
BOOK 2y book
INJ 5 inj
SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Norwesco - Lancaster (0.0 TCR gap)

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7.6
Norwesco - Lan

7.6
UPF WI

7.6
Meese - Ashtab

7.6
Revere Plastic

7.6

What this shows Best Formed Plastics averages 7.6 TCR (230% of the Doors and door frames, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Best Formed Plastics TCR series: 2021=5.2 · 2023=10 · BLS 3.3

Where Best Formed Plastics falls in its industry

2,838 Doors and door frames, plastic establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #119 safest of 143 Doors and door frames, plastic employers in Indiana.

Best Formed Plastics (37 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Best Formed Plastics has fewer employees than the Doors and door frames, plastics, manufac 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
2023	10.0	0.0	3	0	0
2021	5.2	5.2	2	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · IN · Elkhart

2,838 Doors and door frames, plastics, 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Norwesco - Lancaster	LANCASTER, OH	7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	UPF WI	NEENAH, WI	7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Meese - Ashtabula	ASHTABULA, OH	7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Revere Plastics Systems - Ankeny	ANKENY, IA	7.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Utopian Plants Indiana, LLC	INDIANAPOLIS	37 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Cokenergy	EAST CHICAGO	37 FTE
STATE-SIZE	CORE Construction Indiana, LLC	SCHERERVILLE	37 FTE
STATE-SIZE	1038 - BELFOR Indianapolis IN	INDIANAPOLIS	37 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Forest River, Inc.	Elkhart	12,549 FTE
CITY-NEAR	THOR MOTOR COACH	Elkhart	2,437 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Elkhart Community Schools	Elkhart	1,892 FTE
CITY-NEAR	HRV LLC	Elkhart	1,692 FTE
NAT-TCR	Mountaintop USA	Montgomery, AL	7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Verdugo Valley Skld Nsg & Wlns Centre	Montrose, CA	7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Brainerd Arrowwood	Baxter, MN	7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Cash Saver 595	Sand Springs, OK	7.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	127 - Barstow	Barstow, CA	37 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Portland Food Co-op	Portland, ME	37 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Lincoln Haven Nursing & Rehabilitation Community	Lincoln, MI	37 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Classic Accident Repair Center	Mentor, OH	37 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: 2023, 2021. 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.