Couplings, mechanical power transmission, manufacturing · Indiana

Guardian Couplings

Michigan City, IN · ~42 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Guardian Couplings runs at 238% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Couplings, mechanical power transmission, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Guardian Couplings: 7.9 TCR = 238% of Couplings, mechanical power transmission, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Guardian Couplings safety composite

Guardian Couplings scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Guardian Couplings: 2.4 → 8.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 13.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.8× in 2021

Guardian Couplings's TCR rose 6.0 from 2.4 in 2016 to 8.4 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 13.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333613 · Michigan City, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.9 · 238% of ind

  • DART 6.3 DART
  • RANK P8
  • PHOTO Eskridge, Inc
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Eskridge, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Guardian Couplings in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Guardian Couplings averages 7.9 TCR (238% of the Couplings, mechanical power transmission, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Guardian Couplings TCR series: 2016=2.4 · 2017=8.7 · 2018=13 · 2019=2 · 2020=12.5 · 2021=8.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Guardian Couplings falls in its industry

111 Couplings, mechanical power tr establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Guardian Couplings (42 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Guardian Couplings
Guardian Couplings (42 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Guardian Couplings has fewer employees than the Couplings, mechanical power transmission median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2021 8.4 6.3 4 0 0
2020 12.5 7.5 5 0 0
2019 2.0 0.0 0 1 0
2018 13.0 13.0 6 1 0
2017 8.7 6.5 3 1 0
2016 2.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333613 · IN · Michigan City

111 Couplings, mechanical power transmission, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 111 employers in Michigan City, 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 Eskridge, Inc 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Art Acquisition LLC 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Art Technologies 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR U.S. Tsubaki Power Transmission LLC 7.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Benton Dairy LLC 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Feather Crest Farm 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Orange County REMC 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mid-States Construction Inc. 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR Franciscan Health Michigan City 938 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Chip Casino Hotel Spa 772 FTE
CITY-NEAR Michigan City High School 603 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hearthside Foods Solutions 602 FTE
NAT-TCR Store #064 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 182433-Dsm-Pleasant Hill Br 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Vtm-410 Virginia Beach 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR FourPoints by Sheraton 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4016144 - Swa Lax T1.5 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE JB Smith Mfg Co LLC 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Owens & Minor Denver 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store #137 42 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.