Bumpers and bumperettes assembled, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · Indiana

Creative Liquid Coatings, Inc. Kendallville

Kendallville, IN · ~711 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Creative Liquid Coatings, Inc. Kendallville runs at 33% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Bumpers and bumperettes assembled, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Creative Liquid Coatings, Inc. Kendallville: 1.8 TCR = 33% of Bumpers and bumperettes assembled, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Creative Liquid Coatings, Inc. Kendallville safety composite

Creative Liquid Coatings, Inc. Kendallville scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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

−1.1

2021→2024

Creative Liquid Coatings, Inc. Kendallville injury rate improved

Creative Liquid Coatings, Inc. Kendallville's TCR fell 1.1 from 2.4 in 2021 to 1.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 2.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=2.4 · 2022=1.8 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336390 · Kendallville, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.8 · 33% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #18/66
  • PHOTO Corning Incorporated…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 62 inj
  • SIZE ~711 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Corning Incorporated - Blacksburg Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Creative Liquid Coatings, Inc. Kendallville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Creative Liquid Coatings, Inc. Kendallville averages 1.8 TCR (33% of the Bumpers and bumperettes assembled, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Creative Liquid Coatings, Inc. Kendallville TCR series: 2021=2.4 · 2022=1.8 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 5.4

Where Creative Liquid Coatings, Inc. Kendallville falls in its industry

772 Bumpers and bumperettes assemb establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 66 Bumpers and bumperettes assemb employers in Indiana.

Creative Liquid Coatings, Inc. Kendallville (711 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Creative Liquid Coatings, Inc. Kendallville
Creative Liquid Coatings, Inc. Kendallville (711 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Creative Liquid Coatings, Inc. Kendallville has more employees than the Bumpers and bumperettes assembled, autom median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 1.2 1.0 13 0 0
2023 1.8 1.5 17 1 0
2022 1.8 0.1 16 0 0
2021 2.4 1.9 16 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336390 · IN · Kendallville

772 Bumpers and bumperettes assembled, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 37 employers in Kendallville, 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 Corning Incorporated - Blacksburg Plant 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Technology Center 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hitachi Astemo 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Purem by Eberspaecher North America - Wixom 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Indianapolis Public Transportation Corporation 711 FTE
STATE-SIZE Enkei America Columbus 713 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fleetwood RV 713 FTE
STATE-SIZE Poynter Sheet Metal Inc 714 FTE
CITY-NEAR LSC Communications 488 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1388 303 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kraft Heinz Company 300 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1388 291 FTE
NAT-TCR Waterloo, IA - 1205 Peters Dr 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Memorial Hospital of Martinsville and Henry Co. - FNS 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Hazelwood, MO 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Integrated Power Services Seattle Service Center 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Central Motor Wheel of America 711 FTE
NAT-SIZE FL_Orlando_65 South Keller Road_00620110 711 FTE
NAT-SIZE IPP Plant 711 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alatrade Foods Inc - Albertville 711 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.