All-terrain vehicles (ATVs), wheeled or tracked, manufacturing · Indiana

Dexter Axle Company - Plant 61

Elkhart, IN · ~140 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dexter Axle Company - Plant 61 runs at 45% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical All-terrain vehicles (ATVs), wheeled or tracked, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Dexter Axle Company - Plant 61: 1.5 TCR = 45% of All-terrain vehicles (ATVs), wheeled or tracked, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dexter Axle Company - Plant 61 safety composite

Dexter Axle Company - Plant 61 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Dexter Axle Company - Plant 61: 0.0 → 1.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.23× in 2021

Dexter Axle Company - Plant 61's TCR rose 1.7 from 0.0 in 2016 to 1.7 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336999 · Elkhart, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 45% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #4/8
  • PHOTO Textron Specialized …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~140 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Textron Specialized Vehicles - Arctic Cat St. Cloud (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dexter Axle Company - Plant 61 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dexter Axle Company - Plant 61 averages 1.5 TCR (45% of the All-terrain vehicles (ATVs), wheeled or tracked, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Dexter Axle Company - Plant 61 TCR series: 2016=0 · 2018=1.9 · 2019=0 · 2020=3.9 · 2021=1.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Dexter Axle Company - Plant 61 falls in its industry

85 All-terrain vehicles (ATVs), w establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

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 8 All-terrain vehicles (ATVs), w employers in Indiana.

Dexter Axle Company - Plant 61 (140 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 114 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Dexter Axle Company - Plant 61
Dexter Axle Company - Plant 61 (140 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 114 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Dexter Axle Company - Plant 61 has more employees than the All-terrain vehicles (ATVs), wheeled or median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2021 1.7 0.3 5 0 0
2020 3.9 1.6 5 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 1.9 0.0 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336999 · IN · Elkhart

85 All-terrain vehicles (ATVs), wheeled or tracked, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 401 employers in Elkhart, 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 Textron Specialized Vehicles - Arctic Cat St. Cloud 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Textron Specialized Vehicles - Augusta West 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR AMERICANA TIRE & WHEEL - BLACKSHEAR, GA 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR South Carolina Manufacturing 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cortacre Egg Farm 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Horizons Baking Company- IN 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE FBF ORIGINALS 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cenveo - EPG Indianapolis 140 FTE
CITY-NEAR Forest River, Inc. 12,549 FTE
CITY-NEAR THOR MOTOR COACH 2,437 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elkhart Community Schools 1,892 FTE
CITY-NEAR HRV LLC 1,692 FTE
NAT-TCR Apache Camping Center, Everett 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Smith Corners 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Pa105-Yapi-Lancaster Bh, Pa105 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hahnemann Univ Hosp (PAHS) 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Springfield 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE Edgewood 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scherdel Sales & Technology, Inc. 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE CAM 140 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.