Carbon inorganic compounds manufacturing · Indiana

Hammond Expanders

Hammond, IN · ~24 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hammond Expanders runs at 172% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Carbon inorganic compounds manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Hammond Expanders: 5.7 TCR = 172% of Carbon inorganic compounds manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hammond Expanders safety composite

Hammond Expanders scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 0%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% 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

Hammond Expanders: 0.0 → 15.2 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 18.6 TCR · DART/TCR 2.69× in 2024

Hammond Expanders's TCR rose 15.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 15.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 18.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 2.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325180 · Hammond, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 172% of ind

  • DART 15.2 DART
  • RANK #15/19
  • PHOTO METALS AND ADDITIVES…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: METALS AND ADDITIVES PLANT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hammond Expanders in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hammond Expanders averages 5.7 TCR (172% of the Carbon inorganic compounds manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hammond Expanders TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=18.6 · 2022=17 · 2023=0 · 2024=15.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Hammond Expanders falls in its industry

418 Carbon inorganic compounds man establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 19 Carbon inorganic compounds man employers in Indiana.

Hammond Expanders (24 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Hammond Expanders
Hammond Expanders (24 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Hammond Expanders has fewer employees than the Carbon inorganic compounds manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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
2024 15.2 15.2 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 17.0 5.7 3 0 0
2021 18.6 18.6 0 4 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325180 · IN · Hammond

418 Carbon inorganic compounds manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 136 employers in Hammond, 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 METALS AND ADDITIVES PLANT 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Evonik Active Oxygens, LLC - Tonawanda 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rowell Chemical Corporation 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern States Chemicals SeaGate 5.8 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 HORSESHOE HAMMOND 1,312 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lear Corporation - Hammond 920 FTE
CITY-NEAR Franciscan Health Hammond 535 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2818 419 FTE
NAT-TCR Amu - or 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR West Des Moines Marriott 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Lanier Rehabilitation Center 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Marble Today Palatka 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mulholland Citrus 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Humphrey Agronomy & Grain 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Printron Steel Rule Die, Inc. 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE James Thomas Heating and Cooling 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.