Bushings, plastics, manufacturing · Indiana

Better Way Products

Bremen, IN · ~150 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

Better Way Products runs at 101% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bushings, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Better Way Products: 3.3 TCR = 101% of Bushings, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Better Way Products safety composite

Better Way Products scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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%).

Better Way Products held a steady TCR band

Better Way Products's TCR held near 0.0 from 5.1 in 2017 to 5.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 5.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.1 · 2018=3.2 · 2019=2.8 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=5.3 · 2022=1.1 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=5.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Bremen, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 101% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #65/143
  • PHOTO Marvin Composites - …
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~150 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Marvin Composites - Salem (0.0 TCR gap)

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Better Way Products in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Better Way Products averages 3.3 TCR (101% of the Bushings, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Better Way Products TCR series: 2017=5.1 · 2018=3.2 · 2019=2.8 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=5.3 · 2022=1.1 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=5 · BLS 3.3

Where Better Way Products falls in its industry

2,838 Bushings, plastics, manufactur establishments

Safer than 53% 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 #65 safest of 143 Bushings, plastics, manufactur employers in Indiana.

Better Way Products (150 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Better Way Products
Better Way Products (150 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Better Way Products has more employees than the Bushings, plastics, manufacturing median and a lower 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 5.0 2.5 3 1 0
2023 1.9 0.9 2 0 0
2022 1.1 0.6 2 0 0
2021 5.3 4.1 8 1 0
2020 2.3 1.5 3 0 0
2019 2.8 1.4 4 0 0
2018 3.2 2.1 6 0 0
2017 5.1 2.5 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · IN · Bremen

2,838 Bushings, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 28 employers in Bremen, 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 Marvin Composites - Salem 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Inline Plastics Inc. (Connecticut) 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Penda 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wisconic LLC 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Korellis Roofing Inc. 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kendallville IN 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harland Clarke Jeffersonville Indiana 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3C, LLC (Hague Rd.) 150 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southwire Bremen 521 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bremen Wire Plant 510 FTE
CITY-NEAR NISCO-Bremen 350 FTE
CITY-NEAR Universal Bearings LLC 315 FTE
NAT-TCR Bluff View Elementary 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR TRL Systems, Inc. 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Co-operative Plating 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sheraton Kauai Resort at Coconut Beach 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE TurbinePROs Main Office 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE General Office 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Grove of Elmhurst 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clearwater 150 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, 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.