Axle bearings, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · Indiana

Flexible Concepts, Inc

Elkhart, IN · ~130 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Flexible Concepts, Inc runs at 100% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Axle bearings, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Flexible Concepts, Inc: 5.4 TCR = 100% of Axle bearings, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Flexible Concepts, Inc safety composite

Flexible Concepts, Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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

−1.6

2016→2024

Flexible Concepts, Inc injury rate improved

Flexible Concepts, Inc's TCR fell 1.6 from 4.2 in 2016 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.2 · 2018=5.2 · 2022=6.2 · 2023=8.8 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336350 · Elkhart, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 5.4 · 100% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #36/41
  • PHOTO HHI FormTech - Troy …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~130 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HHI FormTech - Troy (DBA AAM) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Flexible Concepts, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Flexible Concepts, Inc averages 5.4 TCR (100% of the Axle bearings, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Flexible Concepts, Inc TCR series: 2016=4.2 · 2018=5.2 · 2022=6.2 · 2023=8.8 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 5.4

Where Flexible Concepts, Inc falls in its industry

320 Axle bearings, automotive, tru establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #36 safest of 41 Axle bearings, automotive, tru employers in Indiana.

Flexible Concepts, Inc (130 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 200 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Flexible Concepts, Inc
Flexible Concepts, Inc (130 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 200 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Flexible Concepts, Inc has fewer employees than the Axle bearings, automotive, truck, and bu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 2.6 0.6 4 0 0
2023 8.8 5.8 12 0 0
2022 6.2 1.6 8 0 0
2018 5.2 0.6 9 0 0
2016 4.2 0.0 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336350 · IN · Elkhart

320 Axle bearings, automotive, truck, and bus, 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 HHI FormTech - Troy (DBA AAM) 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR STERLING PLNT 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR HHI Formtech, LLC - Royal Oak Plant 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant 1 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Calumet Civil Contractors, Inc 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1030 S.Kitley AVE 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hill's Pet Nutrition Indiana Inc. 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dynamic Packaging Solutions, Inc. 130 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 Datascope Corporation - Mahwah 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Tuuci LLC 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Abbott Machine company 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR The Chefs Warehouse West Coast, LLC. Las Vegas 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE PJ Wallbank Springs, Inc. 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE Okamoto Sandusky Manufacturing 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE MP Global Products 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lusamerica Foods, Inc. 130 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, 2018, 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.