Lighting equipment, gas, merchant wholesalers · Indiana

Gustafson Lighting

Elkhart, IN · ~24 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gustafson Lighting runs at 91% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Lighting equipment, gas, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Gustafson Lighting: 2.0 TCR = 91% of Lighting equipment, gas, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gustafson Lighting safety composite

Gustafson Lighting scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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%).

Gustafson Lighting held a steady TCR band

Gustafson Lighting's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.0 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=8.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423990 · Elkhart, IN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.0 · 91% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO 4152_7922
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4152_7922 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gustafson Lighting in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gustafson Lighting averages 2.0 TCR (91% of the Lighting equipment, gas, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Gustafson Lighting TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=8 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Gustafson Lighting falls in its industry

322 Lighting equipment, gas, merch establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Lighting equipment, gas, merch employers in Indiana.

Gustafson Lighting (24 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Gustafson Lighting
Gustafson Lighting (24 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Gustafson Lighting has fewer employees than the Lighting equipment, gas, merchant wholes median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 8.0 8.0 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423990 · IN · Elkhart

322 Lighting equipment, gas, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 401 employers in Elkhart, 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 4152_7922 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR QSPAC INDUSTRIES, INC. 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Novus Wood Group - Houston 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arvato _ Las Vegas 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Midwest Poultry Services - Corporate Office 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midwest Pullet Farm / QC / Lab 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE 327-NiSource-West Terre Haute IN 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bedford Operations Center 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Forest River, Inc. 12,549 FTE
CITY-NEAR THOR MOTOR COACH 2,437 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elkhart Community Schools 1,892 FTE
CITY-NEAR HRV LLC 1,692 FTE
NAT-TCR AIA Countertops (Plant 235) 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Continental Construction Company, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Rws Tx North Tx Wichita Falls 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Roanoke Electric Cooperative 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Sauers Group 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sarah Lawrence Vending** 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE US Corrugated Cerritos 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Suburban Service Corporation of Norwood 24 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.