Rubber Product Manufacturing for Mechanical Use · Indiana

Engineered Materials : Syracuse

Name: Engineered Materials : Syracuse Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Syracuse, IN · ~136 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 1.8
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Engineered Materials : Syracuse runs at 54% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Rubber Product Manufacturing for Mechanical Use workplace, earning a grade B.

Engineered Materials : Syracuse: 1.8 TCR = 54% of Rubber Product Manufacturing for Mechanical Use BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Engineered Materials : Syracuse safety composite

Engineered Materials : Syracuse scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% 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).

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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

−5.9

2018→2023

Engineered Materials : Syracuse injury rate improved

Engineered Materials : Syracuse's TCR fell 5.9 from 5.9 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=5.9 · 2019=3.3 · 2020=0.7 · 2021=0.8 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326291 · Syracuse, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 54% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #7/20
PHOTO SGPPL-Portage
BOOK 6y book
INJ 19 inj
SIZE ~136 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SGPPL-Portage (0.0 TCR gap)

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1.8
SGPPL-Portage

1.8
Henniges Autom

1.8
Parker Seals

1.8
NISCO-Topeka

1.8

What this shows Engineered Materials : Syracuse averages 1.8 TCR (54% of the Rubber Product Manufacturing for Mechanical Use BLS benchmark).

Engineered Materials : Syracuse TCR series: 2018=5.9 · 2019=3.3 · 2020=0.7 · 2021=0.8 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Engineered Materials : Syracuse falls in its industry

266 Rubber Product Manufacturing f establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 20 Rubber Product Manufacturing f employers in Indiana.

Engineered Materials : Syracuse (136 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Engineered Materials : Syracuse has more employees than the Rubber Product Manufacturing for Mechani median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2023	0.0	0.0	0
2022	0.0	0.0	0
2021	0.8	0.8	1
2020	0.7	0.7	1
2019	3.3	3.3	6
2018	5.9	5.3	11

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326291 · IN · Syracuse

266 Rubber Product Manufacturing for Mechanical Use employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 22 employers in Syracuse, IN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	SGPPL-Portage	PORTAGE, WI	1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Henniges Automotive	NEW HAVEN, MO	1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Parker Seals	LYNCHBURG, VA	1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	NISCO-Topeka	TOPEKA, IN	1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Corteva Tipton1	TIPTON	136 FTE
STATE-SIZE	DFA ICE CREAM - DECATUR IN	DECATUR	136 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Fort Wayne Bakery	FORT WAYNE	136 FTE
STATE-SIZE	UFP Nappanee, LLC	NAPPANEE	136 FTE
CITY-NEAR	POLYWOOD Headquarters	Syracuse	957 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Wawasee Community School Corporation	Syracuse	819 FTE
CITY-NEAR	POLYWOOD Syracuse	Syracuse	579 FTE
CITY-NEAR	POLYWOOD LLC	Syracuse	284 FTE
NAT-TCR	St Brides Correctional Center	Chesapeake, VA	1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Motion Systems : Enumclaw	Enumclaw, WA	1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	ProPetro Services -- Rocky Mountain Division	Vernal, UT	1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Flint Creek	Gentry, AR	1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Altorfer Inc. - Cedar Rapids, IA - 2600 6th Street SW	Cedar Rapids, IA	136 FTE
NAT-SIZE	St. Luke's Jerome	Boise, ID	136 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Edmonds #136	Edmonds, WA	136 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Boise-Fairview #006	Boise, ID	136 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.