Semi-finished metal products merchant wholesalers · Indiana

Copper and Brass Sales - South Bend

Mishawaka, IN · ~43 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Copper and Brass Sales - South Bend runs at 254% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Semi-finished metal products merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Copper and Brass Sales - South Bend: 5.6 TCR = 254% of Semi-finished metal products merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Copper and Brass Sales - South Bend safety composite

Copper and Brass Sales - South Bend scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Copper and Brass Sales - South Bend: 0.0 → 9.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 9.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.61× in 2018

Copper and Brass Sales - South Bend's TCR rose 9.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 9.0 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Mishawaka, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.6 · 254% of ind

  • DART 9.0 DART
  • RANK #58/75
  • PHOTO Scot Industries - Ea…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Scot Industries - East Troy (0.0 TCR gap)

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Copper and Brass Sales - South Bend in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Copper and Brass Sales - South Bend averages 5.6 TCR (254% of the Semi-finished metal products merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Copper and Brass Sales - South Bend TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=7.7 · 2018=9 · BLS 2.2

Where Copper and Brass Sales - South Bend falls in its industry

1,299 Semi-finished metal products m establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #58 safest of 75 Semi-finished metal products m employers in Indiana.

Copper and Brass Sales - South Bend (43 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Copper and Brass Sales - South Bend
Copper and Brass Sales - South Bend (43 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Copper and Brass Sales - South Bend has fewer employees than the Semi-finished metal products merchant wh median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 9.0 9.0 3 0 0
2017 7.7 7.7 4 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · IN · Mishawaka

1,299 Semi-finished metal products merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 185 employers in Mishawaka, 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 Scot Industries - East Troy 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eastern Metal Supply Lakeland 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Consolidated Pipe & Supply Co. Inc. - Nashville, TN 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR PDM Steel Service Center, Inc. - Spanish Fork 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE North Fork Farms 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Select Genetics IN Hatchery 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred Int'l Inc. 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kosciusko REMC 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center Mishawaka 1,906 FTE
CITY-NEAR AM General, LLC 459 FTE
CITY-NEAR LCI - 039 392 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2678 381 FTE
NAT-TCR Life Care Center of Citrus County 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Commercial Cabinetry of Georgia, LLC 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR JX Peterbilt - Grand Rapids 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR PetersenDean Roofing and Solar 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bridgestone VSI 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Just $ave #172 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Savannah 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Glickman Metal Recycling, LLC 43 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.