Lead acid storage batteries manufacturing · Indiana

Bulldog Battery South

Wabash, IN · ~52 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bulldog Battery South runs at 312% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Lead acid storage batteries manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Bulldog Battery South: 10.3 TCR = 312% of Lead acid storage batteries manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bulldog Battery South safety composite

Bulldog Battery South scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−6.8

2019→2020

Bulldog Battery South injury rate improved

Bulldog Battery South's TCR fell 6.8 from 13.7 in 2019 to 6.9 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 13.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=13.7 · 2020=6.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 335911 · Wabash, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.3 · 312% of ind

  • DART 6.9 DART
  • RANK P3
  • PHOTO IBS of Greater Boston
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~52 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: IBS of Greater Boston (0.4 TCR gap)

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Bulldog Battery South in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bulldog Battery South averages 10.3 TCR (312% of the Lead acid storage batteries manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bulldog Battery South TCR series: 2019=13.7 · 2020=6.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Bulldog Battery South falls in its industry

161 Lead acid storage batteries ma establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Bulldog Battery South (52 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 02,0004,0006,0008,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Bulldog Battery South
Bulldog Battery South (52 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Bulldog Battery South has fewer employees than the Lead acid storage batteries manufacturin median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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
2020 6.9 6.9 3 0 0
2019 13.7 13.7 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

335911 · IN · Wabash

161 Lead acid storage batteries manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 49 employers in Wabash, 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 IBS of Greater Boston 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR NorthStar Battery Plant 1 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Interspace Battery GA Corporation 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR EnerSys Tubing Plant 8.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Taconic Biosciences, Inc. Cambridge City Facility 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2527-Windfall, IN (Monsanto Co.) 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE LeMaster Steel Erectors Inc. - Elkhart 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Oil Company Inc 52 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Ford Meter Box Company, Inc. 685 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Ford Meter Box Company, Inc. (Wabash) 581 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1667 285 FTE
CITY-NEAR White's Residential and Family Services 274 FTE
NAT-TCR Grand Pacific Carlsbad Hotel, L.P. 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR FireDEX of Pittsburgh 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Vintage Care Senior Housing, LLC 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sprinkler Systems 10.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Volvo Cars of Austin 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rifenburg Construction, Inc.-North Carloina 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Polyglass USA, Inc. - Hazleton 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE SCS II, AJV DC Regional Grounds 52 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: 2020, 2019. 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.