Musical instruments (except toy) manufacturing · Indiana

Elkhart North Facility

Elkhart, IN · ~146 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Elkhart North Facility runs at 221% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Musical instruments (except toy) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Elkhart North Facility: 7.3 TCR = 221% of Musical instruments (except toy) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Elkhart North Facility safety composite

Elkhart North Facility scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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 7.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

Elkhart North Facility: 6.4 → 8.2 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 8.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.61× in 2017

Elkhart North Facility's TCR rose 1.8 from 6.4 in 2016 to 8.2 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339992 · Elkhart, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.3 · 221% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO Taylor Guitars
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~146 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Taylor Guitars (0.1 TCR gap)

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Elkhart North Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Elkhart North Facility averages 7.3 TCR (221% of the Musical instruments (except toy) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Elkhart North Facility TCR series: 2016=6.4 · 2017=8.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Elkhart North Facility falls in its industry

41 Musical instruments (except to establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

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 Musical instruments (except to employers in Indiana.

Elkhart North Facility (146 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 110 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Elkhart North Facility
Elkhart North Facility (146 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 110 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Elkhart North Facility has more employees than the Musical instruments (except toy) manufac median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2017 8.2 4.5 11 0 0
2016 6.4 3.2 6 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339992 · IN · Elkhart

41 Musical instruments (except toy) 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 Taylor Guitars 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Innovative Percussion 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR DW Drums - Ox 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ernie Ball Inc. 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Royalty Companies of Indiana Inc. 146 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kerry Evansville 146 FTE
STATE-SIZE Decatur Plastic Products Inc - Indiana Molding Division 146 FTE
STATE-SIZE Portland Forge - Portland, IN 146 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 TM Industrial 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Best Western Plus Windjammer Inn 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR iFLY Woodlands 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Kansas City - 570 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tecnocap Glen Dale 146 FTE
NAT-SIZE Illinois 146 FTE
NAT-SIZE 8350 Lyra Drive,LLC 146 FTE
NAT-SIZE Murfreesboro (Tnmur) 146 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: 2017, 2016. 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.