Ductile iron foundries · Indiana

Grede New Castle Foundry

New Castle, IN · ~326 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Grede New Castle Foundry runs at 65% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Ductile iron foundries workplace, earning a grade B.

Grede New Castle Foundry: 2.2 TCR = 65% of Ductile iron foundries BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Grede New Castle Foundry safety composite

Grede New Castle Foundry scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 2.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−0.6

2022→2023

Grede New Castle Foundry injury rate improved

Grede New Castle Foundry's TCR fell 0.6 from 2.5 in 2022 to 1.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=2.5 · 2023=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331511 · New Castle, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 65% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #3/22
  • PHOTO Kautex - CWC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~326 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kautex - CWC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Grede New Castle Foundry in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Grede New Castle Foundry averages 2.2 TCR (65% of the Ductile iron foundries BLS benchmark).

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

Grede New Castle Foundry TCR series: 2022=2.5 · 2023=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Grede New Castle Foundry falls in its industry

272 Ductile iron foundries establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 22 Ductile iron foundries employers in Indiana.

Grede New Castle Foundry (326 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2 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 Grede New Castle Foundry
Grede New Castle Foundry (326 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2

Grede New Castle Foundry has more employees than the Ductile iron foundries median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.2. 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
2023 1.9 0.3 7 0 0
2022 2.5 1.2 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331511 · IN · New Castle

272 Ductile iron foundries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 44 employers in New Castle, 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 Kautex - CWC 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR AAM Casting | Wauwatosa Manufacturing Facility 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR voestalpine Nortrak Inc-Decatur 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Martin Sprocket & Gear 23 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Highland Ridge RV 326 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1459 326 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1162 326 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6458-ZFWY 326 FTE
CITY-NEAR Henry County Memorial Hospital 860 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boar's Head - New Castle 530 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4238-175 409 FTE
CITY-NEAR 175 951 - GEO EASTERN REGIONAL OFFICE-NEW CASTLE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY 343 FTE
NAT-TCR Toledo OH 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Crestwood Metal Corp 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR InBios International Inc. 307 Facility 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Hoffmaster Group Inc. 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE English American Tailoring Company 326 FTE
NAT-SIZE Audubon Metals LLC 326 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kenny's Candy and Confections 326 FTE
NAT-SIZE Smithfield Packaged Meats 326 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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