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

Dexter Axle Company - Plant 13

Albion, IN · ~805 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dexter Axle Company - Plant 13 runs at 35% 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 - Plant 13: 1.9 TCR = 35% of Brake and brake parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dexter Axle Company - Plant 13 safety composite

Dexter Axle Company - Plant 13 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 62% 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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%).

Dexter Axle Company - Plant 13 held a steady TCR band

Dexter Axle Company - Plant 13's TCR held near 0.1 from 2.0 in 2016 to 1.9 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 2.4 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.0 · 2018=1.1 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 1.9 · 35% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO Nastra Automotive In…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 60 inj
  • SIZE ~805 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nastra Automotive Industries (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dexter Axle Company - Plant 13 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dexter Axle Company - Plant 13 averages 1.9 TCR (35% 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 - Plant 13 TCR series: 2016=2 · 2018=1.1 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=1.9 · BLS 5.4

Where Dexter Axle Company - Plant 13 falls in its industry

133 Brake and brake parts, automot establishments

Safer than 62% 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 #6 safest of 6 Brake and brake parts, automot employers in Indiana.

Dexter Axle Company - Plant 13 (805 employees, TCR 1.9) 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 - Plant 13
Dexter Axle Company - Plant 13 (805 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 150 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Dexter Axle Company - Plant 13 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
2020 1.9 0.9 16 1 0
2019 2.4 1.9 20 1 0
2018 1.1 0.7 10 0 0
2016 2.0 1.0 14 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 Nastra Automotive Industries 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ausco Products Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR ZF North Mankato 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR WABCO-MICO North Mankato 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE HARRAH'S HOOSIER PARK RACING & CASINO 804 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steel Dynamics Structural & Rail Division 802 FTE
STATE-SIZE FORT WAYNE STATE HDQ & G.O. 802 FTE
STATE-SIZE INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTH BEND 808 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dexter Axle Company 684 FTE
CITY-NEAR Busche Performance Group 597 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bosch-Albion 359 FTE
CITY-NEAR Robert Bosch 329 FTE
NAT-TCR Roses 183 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Kittery School District - R. W. Traip Academy 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Medspeed Boise 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Valero Renewable Fuels Company LLC dba Valero Fort Dodge Plant 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Centennial - ARA 805 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spartan Motors, Inc. 805 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gage Personnel West Reading 805 FTE
NAT-SIZE MilliporeSigma - Spruce 805 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.