Automatic screw machines, metal cutting type, manufacturing · Indiana

Fitech/Ashley Ward

Michigan City, IN · ~23 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fitech/Ashley Ward runs at 252% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Automatic screw machines, metal cutting type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Fitech/Ashley Ward: 8.3 TCR = 252% of Automatic screw machines, metal cutting type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fitech/Ashley Ward safety composite

Fitech/Ashley Ward scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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).

D

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

Fitech/Ashley Ward: 0.0 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 15.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Fitech/Ashley Ward's TCR rose 8.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 8.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 15.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333517 · Michigan City, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 252% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #11/12
  • PHOTO Akers National Roll
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Akers National Roll (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fitech/Ashley Ward in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fitech/Ashley Ward averages 8.3 TCR (252% of the Automatic screw machines, metal cutting type, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Fitech/Ashley Ward TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=13.7 · 2018=6.9 · 2019=11.6 · 2020=4.1 · 2021=15.9 · 2022=9.1 · 2023=5.6 · 2024=8 · BLS 3.3

Where Fitech/Ashley Ward falls in its industry

391 Automatic screw machines, meta establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 12 Automatic screw machines, meta employers in Indiana.

Fitech/Ashley Ward (23 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Fitech/Ashley Ward
Fitech/Ashley Ward (23 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Fitech/Ashley Ward has fewer employees than the Automatic screw machines, metal cutting median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 8.0 0.0 0 1 0
2023 5.6 0.0 1 0 0
2022 9.1 9.1 2 0 0
2021 15.9 15.9 4 0 0
2020 4.1 4.1 1 0 0
2019 11.6 7.7 3 0 0
2018 6.9 3.5 2 0 0
2017 13.7 0.0 4 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333517 · IN · Michigan City

391 Automatic screw machines, metal cutting type, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 111 employers in Michigan City, 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 Akers National Roll 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Standard Industrial Corp. 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jarvis Cutting Tools Inc. 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Star Fab 446 8.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Prairie's Edge Farming Company 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pineywoods Farm 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hatchery 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greensburg 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Franciscan Health Michigan City 938 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Chip Casino Hotel Spa 772 FTE
CITY-NEAR Michigan City High School 603 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hearthside Foods Solutions 602 FTE
NAT-TCR MAIN 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Tucson, AZ 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Fairystone Fabrics 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Pennington Health Services dba Thief River Care Center 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Doernemann Construction Inc 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE DV 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Saturn Industries, Inc. 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Whaley Foodservice-Greensboro 23 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.