Seals, grease or oil, manufacturing · Indiana

Freudenberg-NOK Shelbyville Plant

Shelbyville, IN · ~164 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Freudenberg-NOK Shelbyville Plant runs at 201% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Seals, grease or oil, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Freudenberg-NOK Shelbyville Plant: 6.6 TCR = 201% of Seals, grease or oil, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Freudenberg-NOK Shelbyville Plant safety composite

Freudenberg-NOK Shelbyville Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.4

2016→2017

Freudenberg-NOK Shelbyville Plant injury rate improved

Freudenberg-NOK Shelbyville Plant's TCR fell 1.4 from 7.3 in 2016 to 5.9 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.3 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.3 · 2017=5.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339991 · Shelbyville, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.6 · 201% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #13/15
  • PHOTO 2600 E 107th Stree, …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~164 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2600 E 107th Stree, Bolingbrook (0.1 TCR gap)

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Freudenberg-NOK Shelbyville Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Freudenberg-NOK Shelbyville Plant averages 6.6 TCR (201% of the Seals, grease or oil, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Freudenberg-NOK Shelbyville Plant TCR series: 2016=7.3 · 2017=5.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Freudenberg-NOK Shelbyville Plant falls in its industry

218 Seals, grease or oil, manufact establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 15 Seals, grease or oil, manufact employers in Indiana.

Freudenberg-NOK Shelbyville Plant (164 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 84 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Freudenberg-NOK Shelbyville Plant
Freudenberg-NOK Shelbyville Plant (164 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 84 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Freudenberg-NOK Shelbyville Plant has more employees than the Seals, grease or oil, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2017 5.9 2.4 7 3 0
2016 7.3 4.7 13 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339991 · IN · Shelbyville

218 Seals, grease or oil, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 69 employers in Shelbyville, 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 2600 E 107th Stree, Bolingbrook 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lincoln Drive 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lydall Performance Materials (US) 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Woodex Bearing Company, Inc 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Stevens Engineers & Constructors - Hobart 164 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4582 Plymouth Food Service Packaging 164 FTE
STATE-SIZE TASUS 164 FTE
STATE-SIZE American Window and Glass, Inc 164 FTE
CITY-NEAR Indiana Grand 1,033 FTE
CITY-NEAR HORSESHOE INDIANAPOLIS 877 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ryobi Die Casting (USA) INC 779 FTE
CITY-NEAR Penske : 5076-00 Kroger-DCM/Shelbyville, IN 581 FTE
NAT-TCR NAPP Asheboro 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Columbus (Ohtra) 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Dialysis Clinic incorporated 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Advantage Terrafab, LLC 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trig's Stevens Point 164 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bryan Center (Txbrn) 164 FTE
NAT-SIZE 18 Martin 164 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goodrich - Customer Service 164 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: 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.