Steel merchant wholesalers · Indiana

Gibbs Wire and Steel Company, LLC - South Bend, IN

Name: Gibbs Wire and Steel Company, LLC - South Bend, IN Workplace Safety Data
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South Bend, IN · ~36 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 4.1
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Gibbs Wire and Steel Company, LLC - South Bend, IN runs at 185% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Steel merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Gibbs Wire and Steel Company, LLC - South Bend, IN: 4.1 TCR = 185% of Steel merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gibbs Wire and Steel Company, LLC - South Bend, IN safety composite

Gibbs Wire and Steel Company, LLC - South Bend, IN scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 45%), 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).

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 4.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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

Gibbs Wire and Steel Company, LLC - South Bend, IN: 4.7 → 6.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Gibbs Wire and Steel Company, LLC - South Bend, IN's TCR rose 1.5 from 4.7 in 2019 to 6.2 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · South Bend, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 185% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #43/75
PHOTO Alaska Steel Anchorage
BOOK 4y book
INJ 5 inj
SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Alaska Steel Anchorage (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Gibbs Wire and Steel Company, LLC - South Bend, IN averages 4.1 TCR (185% of the Steel merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Gibbs Wire and Steel Company, LLC - South Bend, IN TCR series: 2019=4.7 · 2020=0 · 2022=5.5 · 2023=6.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Gibbs Wire and Steel Company, LLC - South Bend, IN falls in its industry

1,299 Steel merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #43 safest of 75 Steel merchant wholesalers employers in Indiana.

Gibbs Wire and Steel Company, LLC - South Bend, IN (36 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Gibbs Wire and Steel Company, LLC - South Bend, IN has fewer employees than the Steel merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2023	6.2	0.0	1
2022	5.5	2.7	2
2020	0.0	0.0	0
2019	4.7	4.7	2

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · IN · South Bend

1,299 Steel merchant wholesalers 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Alaska Steel Anchorage	ANCHORAGE, AK	4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Scot Industries - Lone Star	LONE STAR, TX	4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Gary Division	GARY, IN	4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Ryerson- Plymouth	PLYMOUTH, MN	4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Indy, Churchman Pack	INDIANAPOLIS	36 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Natural Beauty Growers, LLC - Richmond IN	RICHMOND	36 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Hidden View Dairy, LLC	RENSSELAER	36 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Elkhart Office and Service Building	ELKHART	36 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Memorial Hospital South Bend	South Bend	2,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR	St. Joseph County	South Bend	1,298 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Fourwinds Casino South Bend	South Bend	1,021 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Honeywell IN08	South Bend	810 FTE
NAT-TCR	LMA/LCS Willingboro-1113 Hospital Drive	Willingboro, NJ	4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Big Lots Store #4357 GRAND JUNCTION, CO	Grand Junction, CO	4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	United Interior Service, Inc	Greenvale, NY	4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Store 1532	Rocky Mount, VA	4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Mountain King Spud Growers	Center, CO	36 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Main Office	Cleveland, OH	36 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Market-Houston	Houston, TX	36 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Commons, the	Enid, OK	36 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: 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.