Extruded, molded or lathe-cut rubber goods manufacturing · Indiana

Cooper Standard Automotive

Auburn, IN · ~503 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cooper Standard Automotive runs at 65% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Extruded, molded or lathe-cut rubber goods manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Cooper Standard Automotive: 2.1 TCR = 65% of Extruded, molded or lathe-cut rubber goods manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cooper Standard Automotive safety composite

Cooper Standard Automotive scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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

−1.3

2016→2018

Cooper Standard Automotive injury rate improved

Cooper Standard Automotive's TCR fell 1.3 from 2.8 in 2016 to 1.5 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 2.8 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.8 · 2017=2.1 · 2018=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326291 · Auburn, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 65% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #8/20
  • PHOTO Injectec, Inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~503 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Injectec, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cooper Standard Automotive in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cooper Standard Automotive averages 2.1 TCR (65% of the Extruded, molded or lathe-cut rubber goods manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Cooper Standard Automotive TCR series: 2016=2.8 · 2017=2.1 · 2018=1.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Cooper Standard Automotive falls in its industry

266 Extruded, molded or lathe-cut establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 20 Extruded, molded or lathe-cut employers in Indiana.

Cooper Standard Automotive (503 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Cooper Standard Automotive
Cooper Standard Automotive (503 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Cooper Standard Automotive has more employees than the Extruded, molded or lathe-cut rubber goo median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2018 1.5 0.4 8 0 0
2017 2.1 1.1 12 0 0
2016 2.8 1.5 14 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326291 · IN · Auburn

266 Extruded, molded or lathe-cut rubber goods manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 50 employers in Auburn, 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 Injectec, Inc 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR TRIPPLE M OIL TOOL, INC. 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR ParkOhio Products, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mantaline Corporation 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE L3Harris 503 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ryder Whirlpool Plainfield 503 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana - Bloomington 503 FTE
STATE-SIZE CROWN CORR INC 502 FTE
CITY-NEAR DeKalb Health 641 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 6074 575 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6074 502 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carlex Glass America, LLC 351 FTE
NAT-TCR Department of Insurance 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Tutle and Tutle Trucking, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Shopko Hometown #706 (Doniphan, MO) 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Fixture Pro 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rutland Nursing Home, INC 503 FTE
NAT-SIZE OF East/Schepps - Dallas 503 FTE
NAT-SIZE Donaldson Company- Stevens Point 503 FTE
NAT-SIZE Christiana (Denew) 503 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: 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.