Machine shops · Indiana

Chesterton Plant

Chesterton, IN · ~52 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chesterton Plant runs at 86% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade C.

Chesterton Plant: 2.8 TCR = 86% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chesterton Plant safety composite

Chesterton Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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).

D

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Chesterton Plant: 5.4 → 7.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.87× in 2024

Chesterton Plant's TCR rose 1.7 from 5.4 in 2016 to 7.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Chesterton, IN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 86% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #20/57
  • PHOTO AMG LYN
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~52 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AMG LYN (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chesterton Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chesterton Plant averages 2.8 TCR (86% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Chesterton Plant TCR series: 2016=5.4 · 2017=2 · 2018=3.7 · 2019=1.5 · 2020=0 · 2021=2 · 2022=0 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=7 · BLS 3.3

Where Chesterton Plant falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 57 Machine shops employers in Indiana.

Chesterton Plant (52 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Chesterton Plant
Chesterton Plant (52 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Chesterton Plant has more employees than the Machine shops median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 7.0 5.3 4 0 0
2023 3.8 3.8 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 2.0 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2018 3.7 3.7 1 1 0
2017 2.0 0.0 1 0 0
2016 5.4 3.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · IN · Chesterton

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 27 employers in Chesterton, 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 AMG LYN 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corning Manufacturing Support 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Guill Tool and Engineering, Co., Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR C Machine Co Inc 2.9 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 Urschel 447 FTE
CITY-NEAR Urschel Laboratories 442 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5472-000003189 170 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5472-000001189 167 FTE
NAT-TCR Amarillo 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR F&B Manufacturing LLC 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Flint Group 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Crescent Crown Distributing, L.L.C. // Lafayette 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Monongahela Foodland 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE XDY 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kuhlman Corporation Yard 1 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE XJP 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.