Transmission equipment, electrical, merchant wholesalers · Indiana

Essex Brownell 425

Fort Wayne, IN · ~86 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Essex Brownell 425 runs at 220% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Transmission equipment, electrical, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Essex Brownell 425: 4.8 TCR = 220% of Transmission equipment, electrical, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Essex Brownell 425 safety composite

Essex Brownell 425 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Essex Brownell 425: 2.6 → 3.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.74× in 2024

Essex Brownell 425's TCR rose 0.9 from 2.6 in 2020 to 3.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423610 · Fort Wayne, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.8 · 220% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #21/29
  • PHOTO McDonough
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~86 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: McDonough (0.0 TCR gap)

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Essex Brownell 425 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Essex Brownell 425 averages 4.8 TCR (220% of the Transmission equipment, electrical, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Essex Brownell 425 TCR series: 2020=2.6 · 2021=6.2 · 2023=7 · 2024=3.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Essex Brownell 425 falls in its industry

1,190 Transmission equipment, electr establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 29 Transmission equipment, electr employers in Indiana.

Essex Brownell 425 (86 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Essex Brownell 425
Essex Brownell 425 (86 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Essex Brownell 425 has more employees than the Transmission equipment, electrical, merc median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 3.6 3.6 3 0 0
2023 7.0 6.0 7 0 0
2021 6.2 3.7 4 1 0
2020 2.6 1.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423610 · IN · Fort Wayne

1,190 Transmission equipment, electrical, merchant wholesalers 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 McDonough 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ALL-PHASE ELECTRIC SUPPLY (PC4169) 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 594 - FOLCROFT, PA 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peninsular Electric Distributors 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Service Bird Crew / E-Crew 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Service / Bird Crew 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Preferred, Inc. - Fort Wayne 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Indy One Hour Heating and Air Conditioning 86 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 Williams Steel Erection Company, Inc 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Raley's 113- Incline Village 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR J B Esker & Sons Inc 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sperry's Moviehouse Holland, LLC 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Concrete Inc DBA Knife River 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aegis Group Inc 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sapphire Nursing at Wappingers 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC 86 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, 2021, 2020. 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.