Travel trailers, recreational, manufacturing · Indiana

Cruiser RV Plant 208

Howe, IN · ~121 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cruiser RV Plant 208 runs at 184% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Travel trailers, recreational, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Cruiser RV Plant 208: 6.1 TCR = 184% of Travel trailers, recreational, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cruiser RV Plant 208 safety composite

Cruiser RV Plant 208 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 6.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

Cruiser RV Plant 208: 0.0 → 12.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 12.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.6× in 2018

Cruiser RV Plant 208's TCR rose 12.2 from 0.0 in 2017 to 12.2 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336214 · Howe, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 184% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #54/125
  • PHOTO Midwest Industries, …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~121 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Midwest Industries, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cruiser RV Plant 208 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cruiser RV Plant 208 averages 6.1 TCR (184% of the Travel trailers, recreational, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Cruiser RV Plant 208 TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=12.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Cruiser RV Plant 208 falls in its industry

262 Travel trailers, recreational, establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #54 safest of 125 Travel trailers, recreational, employers in Indiana.

Cruiser RV Plant 208 (121 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 121 employees and a TCR of 7.2 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Cruiser RV Plant 208
Cruiser RV Plant 208 (121 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 121 employees and a TCR of 7.2

Cruiser RV Plant 208 has more employees than the Travel trailers, recreational, manufactu median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.2. 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
2018 12.2 3.6 8 2 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336214 · IN · Howe

262 Travel trailers, recreational, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 14 employers in Howe, 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 Midwest Industries, Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR PLANT 1 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Keystone RV Company - Plant 23 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE South Central Indiana REMC 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central Indiana Insulation LLC 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE McCormick South Bend Plant 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Lakes Lamination 121 FTE
CITY-NEAR CRUISER 490 FTE
CITY-NEAR Exo-s Howe 205 FTE
CITY-NEAR Therma Tru Howe 187 FTE
CITY-NEAR DRV LLC 114 FTE
NAT-TCR Jerry Brown's Auto Parts 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Birmingham (Altru) 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Malin International Ship Repair & Drydock, Inc. 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR GCCOM - Commerce GA 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Weeks Marine Equipment Maintenance 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eversource - Somerville Electric 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mercy Medical Center New Hampton 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE Iron Hill Brewery- West Chester 121 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. 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.