Cable, noninsulated wire, made from purchased wire · Indiana

Bridon American Corporation

Oakland City, IN · ~32 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Bridon American Corporation runs at 355% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cable, noninsulated wire, made from purchased wire workplace, earning a grade F.

Bridon American Corporation: 11.7 TCR = 355% of Cable, noninsulated wire, made from purchased wire BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bridon American Corporation safety composite

Bridon American Corporation scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 5% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 0%), 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

3/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 0% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.5

2016→2017

Bridon American Corporation injury rate improved

Bridon American Corporation's TCR fell 6.5 from 14.9 in 2016 to 8.5 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 14.9 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=14.9 · 2017=8.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332618 · Oakland City, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.7 · 355% of ind

  • DART 8.5 DART
  • RANK #11/11
  • PHOTO Modular Container Sy…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Modular Container Systems (0.3 TCR gap)

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Bridon American Corporation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bridon American Corporation averages 11.7 TCR (355% of the Cable, noninsulated wire, made from purchased wire BLS benchmark).

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

Bridon American Corporation TCR series: 2016=14.9 · 2017=8.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Bridon American Corporation falls in its industry

270 Cable, noninsulated wire, made establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 11 Cable, noninsulated wire, made employers in Indiana.

Bridon American Corporation (32 employees, TCR 11.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Bridon American Corporation
Bridon American Corporation (32 employees, TCR 11.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Bridon American Corporation has fewer employees than the Cable, noninsulated wire, made from purc median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2017 8.5 8.5 3 0 0
2016 14.9 6.0 4 1 1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332618 · IN · Oakland City

270 Cable, noninsulated wire, made from purchased wire employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 6 employers in Oakland City, 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 Modular Container Systems 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Witzel Ave 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR NE Shaped Wire 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tulare Warehouse - Langston Companies Inc. 10.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE R. Gallagher Generating Station 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aurora 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jasper County REMC Headquarters 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Indiana American Water-Northwest District Borman Park Water Treatment Plant 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Good Samaritan Home & Rehab 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR BBRG Oakland City 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR IGA #461 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Denny's Store #262 35 FTE
NAT-TCR S04145 - WM of Central IA - Independence 11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 449 11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Synergy Solutions Crisp County 11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Store #2 11.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Contour Construction 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spring hill Farm Dairy Inc 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rai Mx Ord 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0052 - Everett, Wa 32 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: 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.