Powder metallurgy products manufactured on a job or order basis · Indiana

GKN Sinter Metals - Salem, Indiana

Salem, IN · ~490 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

GKN Sinter Metals - Salem, Indiana runs at 107% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Powder metallurgy products manufactured on a job or order basis workplace, earning a grade C.

GKN Sinter Metals - Salem, Indiana: 3.5 TCR = 107% of Powder metallurgy products manufactured on a job or order basis BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

GKN Sinter Metals - Salem, Indiana safety composite

GKN Sinter Metals - Salem, Indiana scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

GKN Sinter Metals - Salem, Indiana: 2.8 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.69× in 2019

GKN Sinter Metals - Salem, Indiana's TCR rose 1.5 from 2.8 in 2017 to 4.3 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332117 · Salem, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 107% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #6/10
  • PHOTO GKN Sinter Metals - …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~490 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GKN Sinter Metals - Fairview (0.0 TCR gap)

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GKN Sinter Metals - Salem, Indiana in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows GKN Sinter Metals - Salem, Indiana averages 3.5 TCR (107% of the Powder metallurgy products manufactured on a job or order basis BLS benchmark).

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

GKN Sinter Metals - Salem, Indiana TCR series: 2017=2.8 · 2019=4.3 · BLS 3.3

Where GKN Sinter Metals - Salem, Indiana falls in its industry

151 Powder metallurgy products man establishments

Safer than 43% 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 #6 safest of 10 Powder metallurgy products man employers in Indiana.

GKN Sinter Metals - Salem, Indiana (490 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 88 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate GKN Sinter Metals - Salem, Indiana
GKN Sinter Metals - Salem, Indiana (490 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 88 employees and a TCR of 2.9

GKN Sinter Metals - Salem, Indiana has more employees than the Powder metallurgy products manufactured 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
2019 4.3 2.4 20 3 0
2017 2.8 0.9 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332117 · IN · Salem

151 Powder metallurgy products manufactured on a job or order basis employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 24 employers in Salem, 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 GKN Sinter Metals - Fairview 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metal Powder Products 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR ARC Firestone 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Allied Sinterings Incorporated 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE CRUISER 490 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pittsburgh Glass Works, LLC - Evansville 489 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sugar Creek Packing Co. CCI 492 FTE
STATE-SIZE LSC Communications 488 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kimball Salem 385 FTE
CITY-NEAR GKN Sinter Metals 360 FTE
CITY-NEAR 8027611-GKN 339 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 7087 292 FTE
NAT-TCR JBP Pocatello 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Robins AFB 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Roanoke Service Building 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hoerr Costruction, Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE ARYZTA - Swedesboro 490 FTE
NAT-SIZE The RMR Group LLC 490 FTE
NAT-SIZE Conbraco Industries - Pearl Street 490 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goodrich - Cargo Systems 490 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: 2019, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.