Furniture, outdoor metal household-type (e.g., beach, garden, lawn, porch), manufacturing · Indiana

Challenger Designs

Nappanee, IN · ~71 workers · 3 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

Challenger Designs runs at 191% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Furniture, outdoor metal household-type (e.g., beach, garden, lawn, porch), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Challenger Designs: 6.3 TCR = 191% of Furniture, outdoor metal household-type (e.g., beach, garden, lawn, porch), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Challenger Designs safety composite

Challenger Designs 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)
F 6.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.95 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%).

Challenger Designs held a steady TCR band

Challenger Designs's TCR held near 0.1 from 7.8 in 2016 to 8.0 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.8 · 2018=3.1 · 2019=8.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 337124 · Nappanee, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 191% of ind

  • DART 8.0 DART
  • RANK P33
  • PHOTO Telescope Casual Fur…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Telescope Casual Furniture (0.1 TCR gap)

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Challenger Designs in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Challenger Designs averages 6.3 TCR (191% of the Furniture, outdoor metal household-type (e.g., beach, garden, lawn, porch), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Challenger Designs TCR series: 2016=7.8 · 2018=3.1 · 2019=8 · BLS 3.3

Where Challenger Designs falls in its industry

33 Furniture, outdoor metal house establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Challenger Designs (71 employees, TCR 6.3) among 23 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 5.8 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 24 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 0100200300 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Challenger Designs
Challenger Designs (71 employees, TCR 6.3) among 23 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 5.8

Challenger Designs has fewer employees than the Furniture, outdoor metal household-type median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.8. 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
2019 8.0 8.0 9 0 0
2018 3.1 1.5 2 0 0
2016 7.8 5.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337124 · IN · Nappanee

33 Furniture, outdoor metal household-type (e.g., beach, garden, lawn, porch), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 38 employers in Nappanee, 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 Telescope Casual Furniture 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR List Industries, Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR HOBCO Waukesha 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Woodard 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Northeastern REMC 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Valparaiso City Services 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Signature Construction LLC 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE TWG Construction, LLC. 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newmar Corporation 964 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aluminum Trailer Company 469 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gulf Stream Plant 51 376 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shawnee St 281 FTE
NAT-TCR Rome 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Educational Bus Transportation 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Departamento De Finanzas 13103 00 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR P & C Roofing, Inc. 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lowes Foods #234 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Solecon 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Masco Coatings Group Roanoke MFG 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Phillips Medisize LLC - Phillips Medical Tech Drive 71 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: 2019, 2018, 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.