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

General Stamping and Metal Works

South Bend, IN · ~307 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

General Stamping and Metal Works runs at 311% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punching, shaping, welding), fabricated metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

General Stamping and Metal Works: 10.3 TCR = 311% of Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punching, shaping, welding), fabricated metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

General Stamping and Metal Works safety composite

General Stamping and Metal Works scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

General Stamping and Metal Works: 8.9 → 11.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 11.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.02× in 2020

General Stamping and Metal Works's TCR rose 2.7 from 8.9 in 2019 to 11.6 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332313 · South Bend, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.3 · 311% of ind

  • DART 10.5 DART
  • RANK #10/11
  • PHOTO Choctaw Defense Manu…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~307 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Choctaw Defense Manufacturing Contractor - Hugo (0.0 TCR gap)

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General Stamping and Metal Works in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows General Stamping and Metal Works averages 10.3 TCR (311% 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

General Stamping and Metal Works TCR series: 2019=8.9 · 2020=11.6 · BLS 3.3

Where General Stamping and Metal Works falls in its industry

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

Safer than 10% 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 #10 safest of 11 Plate work (e.g., bending, cut employers in Indiana.

General Stamping and Metal Works (307 employees, TCR 10.3) 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 General Stamping and Metal Works
General Stamping and Metal Works (307 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5

General Stamping and Metal Works has more employees than the Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punc median and a higher 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
2020 11.6 10.5 22 8 0
2019 8.9 7.1 20 14 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332313 · IN · South Bend

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 · 318 employers in South Bend, 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 Choctaw Defense Manufacturing Contractor - Hugo 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR ITW Building Components Group Inc - Litchfield 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ottenweller Company, Inc. Fort Wayne Headquarters 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR US573 US Tray 10.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lear - Portage 307 FTE
STATE-SIZE Presort Services- Indianapolis 307 FTE
STATE-SIZE Paladin, Inc. 307 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mel Kay 308 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorial Hospital South Bend 2,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph County 1,298 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fourwinds Casino South Bend 1,021 FTE
CITY-NEAR Honeywell IN08 810 FTE
NAT-TCR HPW - Hyatt Place Durham/Southpoint 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Omahaline Hydraulics 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Museum of the Bible 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 451 Portland, or 10.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cardone Plant 49 307 FTE
NAT-SIZE HellermannTyton- Good Hope 307 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cleveland Tn Cdpa 307 FTE
NAT-SIZE Los Angeles Police Department, Security Services Division 307 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: 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.