Fencing (except wood) merchant wholesalers · Indiana

Digger Specialties, Inc

Bremen, IN · ~264 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Digger Specialties, Inc runs at 735% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fencing (except wood) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Digger Specialties, Inc: 16.2 TCR = 735% of Fencing (except wood) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Digger Specialties, Inc safety composite

Digger Specialties, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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).

F

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

−1.3

2017→2018

Digger Specialties, Inc injury rate improved

Digger Specialties, Inc's TCR fell 1.3 from 16.8 in 2017 to 15.5 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 16.8 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=16.8 · 2018=15.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423390 · Bremen, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 16.2 · 735% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO PRW Steel Supply
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 87 inj
  • SIZE ~264 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PRW Steel Supply (0.9 TCR gap)

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Digger Specialties, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Digger Specialties, Inc averages 16.2 TCR (735% of the Fencing (except wood) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Digger Specialties, Inc TCR series: 2017=16.8 · 2018=15.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Digger Specialties, Inc falls in its industry

168 Fencing (except wood) merchant establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Fencing (except wood) merchant employers in Indiana.

Digger Specialties, Inc (264 employees, TCR 16.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Digger Specialties, Inc
Digger Specialties, Inc (264 employees, TCR 16.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Digger Specialties, Inc has more employees than the Fencing (except wood) merchant wholesale median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 15.5 4.9 44 0 0
2017 16.8 6.7 43 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423390 · IN · Bremen

168 Fencing (except wood) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 28 employers in Bremen, 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 PRW Steel Supply 17.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR DMS 15.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mid Valley Pipe & Supply 14.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Weldon Industries 14.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bright Sheet Metal 264 FTE
STATE-SIZE 227 LCI 264 FTE
STATE-SIZE 024-00776 264 FTE
STATE-SIZE RSCG - Plainfield Warehouse 264 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southwire Bremen 521 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bremen Wire Plant 510 FTE
CITY-NEAR NISCO-Bremen 350 FTE
CITY-NEAR Universal Bearings LLC 315 FTE
NAT-TCR USF Port Orange FL 16.2 TCR
NAT-TCR IMI, Inc 16.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 4765-SMFCX0ABX 16.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 4769-356-Williams Sonoma 16.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE TG Gallagher 264 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nelson Tree Service LLC 264 FTE
NAT-SIZE Watlow-Winona 264 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rws Tx Dallas Southwest 264 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.