Foundries, iron (i.e., ductile, gray, malleable, semisteel) · Indiana

Bremen Castings, Inc., - Foundry @ 500 N. Baltimore

Bremen, IN · ~220 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bremen Castings, Inc., - Foundry @ 500 N. Baltimore runs at 487% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Foundries, iron (i.e., ductile, gray, malleable, semisteel) workplace, earning a grade F.

Bremen Castings, Inc., - Foundry @ 500 N. Baltimore: 16.1 TCR = 487% of Foundries, iron (i.e., ductile, gray, malleable, semisteel) BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bremen Castings, Inc., - Foundry @ 500 N. Baltimore safety composite

Bremen Castings, Inc., - Foundry @ 500 N. Baltimore scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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).

F

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Bremen Castings, Inc., - Foundry @ 500 N. Baltimore: 13.3 → 23.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 23.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.81× in 2018

Bremen Castings, Inc., - Foundry @ 500 N. Baltimore's TCR rose 10.1 from 13.3 in 2016 to 23.4 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331511 · Bremen, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 16.1 · 487% of ind

  • DART 12.9 DART
  • RANK #20/22
  • PHOTO O.S. Kelly Company
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 115 inj
  • SIZE ~220 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: O.S. Kelly Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bremen Castings, Inc., - Foundry @ 500 N. Baltimore in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bremen Castings, Inc., - Foundry @ 500 N. Baltimore averages 16.1 TCR (487% of the Foundries, iron (i.e., ductile, gray, malleable, semisteel) BLS benchmark).

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

Bremen Castings, Inc., - Foundry @ 500 N. Baltimore TCR series: 2016=13.3 · 2017=11.4 · 2018=23.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Bremen Castings, Inc., - Foundry @ 500 N. Baltimore falls in its industry

272 Foundries, iron (i.e., ductile establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 22 Foundries, iron (i.e., ductile employers in Indiana.

Bremen Castings, Inc., - Foundry @ 500 N. Baltimore (220 employees, TCR 16.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Bremen Castings, Inc., - Foundry @ 500 N. Baltimore
Bremen Castings, Inc., - Foundry @ 500 N. Baltimore (220 employees, TCR 16.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2

Bremen Castings, Inc., - Foundry @ 500 N. Baltimore has more employees than the Foundries, iron (i.e., ductile, gray, ma median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.2. 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
2018 23.4 12.9 58 0 0
2017 11.4 4.6 29 1 0
2016 13.3 7.1 28 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331511 · IN · Bremen

272 Foundries, iron (i.e., ductile, gray, malleable, semisteel) 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 O.S. Kelly Company 16.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hodge Foundry 16.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Great Lakes Castings, LLC Holland 15.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mid-City Foundry Co. - United Division 15.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE American Licorice 220 FTE
STATE-SIZE inTech Trailers 220 FTE
STATE-SIZE Keystone RV Plant 57 220 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1063 - Carmel 220 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 Pennsauken (Njpns) 16.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Wendover Art Group 16.1 TCR
NAT-TCR TN 340 New Salem Highway 16.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Dominion Senior Living of Hixson 16.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Orange Avenue (Flora) 220 FTE
NAT-SIZE wli-Work Leads to Independence 220 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pleasantville (Njple) 220 FTE
NAT-SIZE PHX - Airport United Airlines Offices 220 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.