Manufacturing · Indiana

Cardinal IG - Fremont IG

Fremont, IN · ~305 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cardinal IG - Fremont IG runs at 51% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Cardinal IG - Fremont IG: 1.7 TCR = 51% of Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cardinal IG - Fremont IG safety composite

Cardinal IG - Fremont IG scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

−0.9

2016→2021

Cardinal IG - Fremont IG injury rate improved

Cardinal IG - Fremont IG's TCR fell 0.9 from 2.0 in 2016 to 1.1 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 2.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.0 · 2017=1.1 · 2018=2.5 · 2021=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327215 · Fremont, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 51% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/21
  • PHOTO Potters Industries M…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~305 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Potters Industries Muscatine (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cardinal IG - Fremont IG in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cardinal IG - Fremont IG averages 1.7 TCR (51% of the Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Cardinal IG - Fremont IG TCR series: 2016=2 · 2017=1.1 · 2018=2.5 · 2021=1.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Cardinal IG - Fremont IG falls in its industry

441 Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 21 Manufacturing employers in Indiana.

Cardinal IG - Fremont IG (305 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 94 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Cardinal IG - Fremont IG
Cardinal IG - Fremont IG (305 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 94 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Cardinal IG - Fremont IG has more employees than the Manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2021 1.1 0.0 3 0 0
2018 2.5 0.7 7 0 0
2017 1.1 1.1 3 0 0
2016 2.0 0.3 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327215 · IN · Fremont

441 Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 28 employers in Fremont, 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 Potters Industries Muscatine 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Potters Industries Cleveland 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Optical Filters SMR 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pittsburgh Glass Works, LLC Westland, MI 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Welch Packaging, LLC 305 FTE
STATE-SIZE MSI Express - Carlson 305 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1570 305 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2787 305 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fremont IG 290 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dexter Axle Company - Plant 12 250 FTE
CITY-NEAR FRE 192 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fremont IN FXFE-FRE 183 FTE
NAT-TCR Greens Bayou Plant 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Bonitz Flooring and Contracting Greenville 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Silgan Plastic Food Containers 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 810 Purple Cow Creamery 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Princeton R&D 305 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fruit Packing #4 305 FTE
NAT-SIZE ARYZTA - Van Nuys 305 FTE
NAT-SIZE ON Semiconductor Western Ave 305 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: 2021, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.