Machinery and equipment, large-scale, installation · Indiana

Don R. Fruchey, Inc.

Fort Wayne, IN · ~94 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Don R. Fruchey, Inc. runs at 107% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Machinery and equipment, large-scale, installation workplace, earning a grade C.

Don R. Fruchey, Inc.: 3.0 TCR = 107% of Machinery and equipment, large-scale, installation BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Don R. Fruchey, Inc. safety composite

Don R. Fruchey, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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%).

Don R. Fruchey, Inc. held a steady TCR band

Don R. Fruchey, Inc.'s TCR held near 0.0 from 2.3 in 2021 to 2.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=2.3 · 2022=6.3 · 2023=1.2 · 2024=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238290 · Fort Wayne, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 107% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #16/22
  • PHOTO Transel Elevator & E…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~94 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Transel Elevator & Electric Inc. DBA TEI Group (0.0 TCR gap)

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Don R. Fruchey, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Don R. Fruchey, Inc. averages 3.0 TCR (107% of the Machinery and equipment, large-scale, installation BLS benchmark).

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

Don R. Fruchey, Inc. TCR series: 2021=2.3 · 2022=6.3 · 2023=1.2 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 2.8

Where Don R. Fruchey, Inc. falls in its industry

1,138 Machinery and equipment, large establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 22 Machinery and equipment, large employers in Indiana.

Don R. Fruchey, Inc. (94 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 Don R. Fruchey, Inc.
Don R. Fruchey, Inc. (94 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Don R. Fruchey, Inc. has more employees than the Machinery and equipment, large-scale, in median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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 2.3 2.3 2 0 0
2023 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2022 6.3 3.1 6 0 0
2021 2.3 1.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238290 · IN · Fort Wayne

1,138 Machinery and equipment, large-scale, installation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 634 employers in Fort Wayne, 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 Transel Elevator & Electric Inc. DBA TEI Group 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Abell Elevator International 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Graettinger 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Iowa Illinois Taylor Insulation Contracting 1 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE AGM-Indianapolis 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maple Leaf Farms, Inc., World Headquarters 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Campbell's Snacks, Indianapolis 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cortacre Breaking Plant 94 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview Memorial Hospital 6,096 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview North Hospital 4,648 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview Corporate Office 3,312 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shambaugh & Son LP 3,072 FTE
NAT-TCR Fairlife 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Parkway Plastics Inc 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Yakima Chief Hops 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 203 - Big Rapids 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pmg Opco-Bridgeport LLC 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tempe Arizona 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE CMCO - Lexington Division - Columbus McKinnon 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brentwood Industries Inc., Martinsburg WV 94 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, 2022, 2021. 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.