Manufacturing metal · Indiana

Challenge Tool Mfg. Inc.

New Haven, IN · ~106 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Challenge Tool Mfg. Inc. runs at 189% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Manufacturing metal workplace, earning a grade D.

Challenge Tool Mfg. Inc.: 6.3 TCR = 189% of Manufacturing metal BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Challenge Tool Mfg. Inc. safety composite

Challenge Tool Mfg. Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Challenge Tool Mfg. Inc.: 5.4 → 7.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.14× in 2024

Challenge Tool Mfg. Inc.'s TCR rose 1.8 from 5.4 in 2023 to 7.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332215 · New Haven, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 189% of ind

  • DART 7.1 DART
  • RANK P35
  • PHOTO Regal Ware, INC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~106 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Regal Ware, INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Challenge Tool Mfg. Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Challenge Tool Mfg. Inc. averages 6.3 TCR (189% of the Manufacturing metal BLS benchmark).

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

Challenge Tool Mfg. Inc. TCR series: 2023=5.4 · 2024=7.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Challenge Tool Mfg. Inc. falls in its industry

52 Manufacturing metal establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Challenge Tool Mfg. Inc. (106 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Challenge Tool Mfg. Inc.
Challenge Tool Mfg. Inc. (106 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.4

Challenge Tool Mfg. Inc. has more employees than the Manufacturing metal median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.4. 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 7.1 7.1 7 0 0
2023 5.4 5.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332215 · IN · New Haven

52 Manufacturing metal employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 37 employers in New Haven, 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 Regal Ware, INC 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vollrath Company LLC, Menomonee Falls 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vollrath Company LLC, Kewaunee East 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Buck Knives, Inc 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Preferred, Inc. - Fort Wayne 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bone Dry Roofing - Indianapolis 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE Morristown (OVC) 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oliver Winery 106 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6458-ZFWY 326 FTE
CITY-NEAR haleymcconnellsanko 211 FTE
CITY-NEAR 468 172 FTE
CITY-NEAR Superior Aluminum Alloys, LLC. 158 FTE
NAT-TCR Trenton Group Inc. d/b/a Hanover Concrete Co. 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Biomass One 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sheet Metal Werks, Inc 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 109 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Berlin 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE IDEX Health & Science 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Gypsum 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pacific Seafood - Eureka LLC 106 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. 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.