Steel manufacturing · Indiana

Craig Welding & Mfg. Inc.

Mentone, IN · ~53 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Craig Welding & Mfg. Inc. runs at 294% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Steel manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Craig Welding & Mfg. Inc.: 9.7 TCR = 294% of Steel manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Craig Welding & Mfg. Inc. safety composite

Craig Welding & Mfg. Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

F

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−7.1

2016→2024

Craig Welding & Mfg. Inc. injury rate improved

Craig Welding & Mfg. Inc.'s TCR fell 7.1 from 11.0 in 2016 to 3.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 13.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=11.0 · 2017=9.5 · 2022=13.2 · 2023=10.9 · 2024=3.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Mentone, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.7 · 294% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #41/42
  • PHOTO George Jue Manufactu…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: George Jue Manufacturing Co Inc (0.1 TCR gap)

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Craig Welding & Mfg. Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Craig Welding & Mfg. Inc. averages 9.7 TCR (294% of the Steel manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Craig Welding & Mfg. Inc. TCR series: 2016=11 · 2017=9.5 · 2022=13.2 · 2023=10.9 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Craig Welding & Mfg. Inc. falls in its industry

416 Steel manufacturing establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #41 safest of 42 Steel manufacturing employers in Indiana.

Craig Welding & Mfg. Inc. (53 employees, TCR 9.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Craig Welding & Mfg. Inc.
Craig Welding & Mfg. Inc. (53 employees, TCR 9.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Craig Welding & Mfg. Inc. has fewer employees than the Steel manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2024 3.9 3.9 2 0 0
2023 10.9 5.4 6 0 0
2022 13.2 1.9 7 0 0
2017 9.5 1.9 5 0 0
2016 11.0 2.2 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · IN · Mentone

416 Steel manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 8 employers in Mentone, 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 George Jue Manufacturing Co Inc 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR STEEL MILL COMPONENTS, INC. - SHOP 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prime Metals & Alloys 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Louis Industries 10.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE County Line Egg Farm 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE 165-NiSource-Hammond IN-Elec Disp Cont Ctr 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electric Distribution Cooperative 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water Reclamation (Sanitation) 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mid-West Spring & Stamping 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR Midwest Pullet Farm 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mentone Branch 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cargill Animal Nutrition 26 FTE
NAT-TCR Medilodge of Capital Area 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Lincoln - LNK 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Foodland #52 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Innovative Surfaces, Inc. 9.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Meredith 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northbrook #106 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Owens & Minor Charlotte 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE St Louis Office (2512) 53 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, 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.