Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punching, shaping, welding), fabricated metal, manufacturing · Indiana

Forge Racks and Dunnage

Connersville, IN · ~107 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Forge Racks and Dunnage runs at 75% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punching, shaping, welding), fabricated metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Forge Racks and Dunnage: 2.5 TCR = 75% of Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punching, shaping, welding), fabricated metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Forge Racks and Dunnage safety composite

Forge Racks and Dunnage scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% 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).

C

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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

−1.1

2023→2024

Forge Racks and Dunnage injury rate improved

Forge Racks and Dunnage's TCR fell 1.1 from 3.0 in 2023 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=3.0 · 2024=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332313 · Connersville, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 75% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #2/11
  • PHOTO Stainless Fabricatio…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~107 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Stainless Fabrication, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Forge Racks and Dunnage in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Forge Racks and Dunnage averages 2.5 TCR (75% of the Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punching, shaping, welding), fabricated metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Forge Racks and Dunnage TCR series: 2023=3 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Forge Racks and Dunnage falls in its industry

449 Plate work (e.g., bending, cut establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 11 Plate work (e.g., bending, cut employers in Indiana.

Forge Racks and Dunnage (107 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Forge Racks and Dunnage
Forge Racks and Dunnage (107 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Forge Racks and Dunnage has more employees than the Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punc median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 1.9 1.0 2 0 0
2023 3.0 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332313 · IN · Connersville

449 Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punching, shaping, welding), fabricated metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 35 employers in Connersville, 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 Stainless Fabrication, Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sivalls, Inc. Odessa 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR McCann Fabrication 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SMI 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. Plymouth, IN 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2580-Remington, IN (Monsanto Co.) 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE Koetter Construction 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE Layne Christensen 1468 West Hospital Road 107 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fayette Regional Health System 479 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1729 257 FTE
CITY-NEAR Howden Roots LLC 250 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1729 248 FTE
NAT-TCR Lee Building Company 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ashbrook Village Senior Living 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Greenwood Regional Rehabilitation Hospital, LLC 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR San Jose Dc 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE McGill Restoration, Inc. 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE Green Plains Inc 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE Canopy by Hilton 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hayashi Telempu North America - Alabama 107 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.