Magnet wire, insulated, made from purchased copper in wire drawing plants · Indiana

Essex Furukawa Fort Wayne Magnet Wire Plant

Fort Wayne, IN · ~106 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Essex Furukawa Fort Wayne Magnet Wire Plant runs at 233% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Magnet wire, insulated, made from purchased copper in wire drawing plants workplace, earning a grade F.

Essex Furukawa Fort Wayne Magnet Wire Plant: 7.7 TCR = 233% of Magnet wire, insulated, made from purchased copper in wire drawing plants BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Essex Furukawa Fort Wayne Magnet Wire Plant safety composite

Essex Furukawa Fort Wayne Magnet Wire Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Essex Furukawa Fort Wayne Magnet Wire Plant: 5.8 → 9.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.02× in 2024

Essex Furukawa Fort Wayne Magnet Wire Plant's TCR rose 3.8 from 5.8 in 2023 to 9.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331420 · Fort Wayne, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.7 · 233% of ind

  • DART 7.8 DART
  • RANK #20/23
  • PHOTO GD Copper, (U.S.A.),…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~106 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GD Copper, (U.S.A.), Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Essex Furukawa Fort Wayne Magnet Wire Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Essex Furukawa Fort Wayne Magnet Wire Plant averages 7.7 TCR (233% of the Magnet wire, insulated, made from purchased copper in wire drawing plants BLS benchmark).

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

Essex Furukawa Fort Wayne Magnet Wire Plant TCR series: 2023=5.8 · 2024=9.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Essex Furukawa Fort Wayne Magnet Wire Plant falls in its industry

198 Magnet wire, insulated, made f establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 23 Magnet wire, insulated, made f employers in Indiana.

Essex Furukawa Fort Wayne Magnet Wire Plant (106 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Essex Furukawa Fort Wayne Magnet Wire Plant
Essex Furukawa Fort Wayne Magnet Wire Plant (106 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Essex Furukawa Fort Wayne Magnet Wire Plant has fewer employees than the Magnet wire, insulated, made from purcha median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 9.6 7.8 10 1 0
2023 5.8 5.8 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331420 · IN · Fort Wayne

198 Magnet wire, insulated, made from purchased copper in wire drawing plants 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 GD Copper, (U.S.A.), Inc. 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Essex Group, Inc Franklin TN Plant 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Electric Materials Company 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Therm-O-Link of Texas 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Preferred, Inc. - Fort Wayne 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bone Dry Roofing - Indianapolis 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE Morristown (OVC) 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oliver Winery 106 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 Gulf Distributing Company of Alabama 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Villara-Manteca 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Advex Corporation 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Marion Machine 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wilmington 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Sharp Memorial Hospital Pom 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Primus Pipe and Tube, Inc 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE East Windsor 106 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.