Brake and brake parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · Indiana

Dexter Axle Company

Albion, IN · ~684 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dexter Axle Company runs at 26% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Brake and brake parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Dexter Axle Company: 1.4 TCR = 26% of Brake and brake parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dexter Axle Company safety composite

Dexter Axle Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.2

2021→2024

Dexter Axle Company injury rate improved

Dexter Axle Company's TCR fell 1.2 from 1.9 in 2021 to 0.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 1.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=1.9 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=0.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336340 · Albion, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 26% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #4/6
  • PHOTO ADVICS Ohio Manufact…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~684 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ADVICS Ohio Manufacturing, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dexter Axle Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dexter Axle Company averages 1.4 TCR (26% of the Brake and brake parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Dexter Axle Company TCR series: 2021=1.9 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=0.7 · BLS 5.4

Where Dexter Axle Company falls in its industry

133 Brake and brake parts, automot establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 6 Brake and brake parts, automot employers in Indiana.

Dexter Axle Company (684 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 150 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 02004006008001,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Dexter Axle Company
Dexter Axle Company (684 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 150 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Dexter Axle Company has more employees than the Brake and brake parts, automotive, truck median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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
2024 0.7 0.3 4 0 0
2023 1.8 1.2 12 0 0
2021 1.9 1.0 19 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336340 · IN · Albion

133 Brake and brake parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 11 employers in Albion, 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 ADVICS Ohio Manufacturing, Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR SL Tennessee, Chassis Division 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR ADVICS Manufacturing Georgia, LLC 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bendix Commercial Vehicles Systems, LLC 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Ford Meter Box Company, Inc. 685 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smoker Craft Inc 685 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ingram Micro Mobility Plainfield Distribution Center 683 FTE
STATE-SIZE Behavioral Health 683 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dexter Axle Company - Plant 13 805 FTE
CITY-NEAR Busche Performance Group 597 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bosch-Albion 359 FTE
CITY-NEAR Robert Bosch 329 FTE
NAT-TCR ABIMAR FOODS North 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR StarPak LLC 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Otis Elevator Company-Miami 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Otis Elevator Company-DC Service 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nice-Pak Prod. Inc / PDI Inc. 684 FTE
NAT-SIZE NY33120 684 FTE
NAT-SIZE Minnesota Department of Health - Golden Rule Building 684 FTE
NAT-SIZE McCain Foods #1 684 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, 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.