Carbon inorganic compounds manufacturing · Indiana
Hammond Expanders - Osborn Street
Hammond, IN · ~20 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 14.0
- Avg TCR
- 3.3
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Hammond Expanders - Osborn Street runs at 425% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Carbon inorganic compounds manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 14.0
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 3.3
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 3
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares Hammond Expanders - Osborn Street's OSHA Total Case Rate of 14.0 to the Carbon inorganic compounds manufacturing BLS benchmark of 3.3 (425% of benchmark) across 2 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
Hammond Expanders - Osborn Street's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.
Where Hammond Expanders - Osborn Street falls in its industry
491 Carbon inorganic compounds man establishmentsSafer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.
Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 23 Carbon inorganic compounds man employers in Indiana.
Trend analysis for Hammond Expanders - Osborn Street
Between 2016 and 2017, Hammond Expanders - Osborn Street's Total Case Rate worsened from 5.9 to 22.1 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 272% increase across 1 year of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2016, at a TCR of 5.9, while 2017 saw the highest rate, at 22.1, a spread of 16.1 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 2 reporting years, Hammond Expanders - Osborn Street recorded 3 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 2-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 3 injuries shown on this page for Hammond Expanders - Osborn Street are sourced from its own 2 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 325180 - Carbon inorganic compounds manufacturing.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2017)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
1 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 18,124 hours worked = 11.04 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Hammond Expanders - Osborn Street (this establishment) | 14.01 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 2-year avg |
| Alkalies manufacturing industry avg | 3.30 | BLS IIF, NAICS 325180 |
| Indiana state avg (all industries) | 4.53 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Hammond Expanders - Osborn Street to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2017: 2 reportable incidents · 2 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2016: 1 reportable incidents · 1 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 22.1 | 11.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 5.9 | 5.9 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Hammond Expanders - Osborn Street's reported OSHA injury record versus its Carbon inorganic compounds manufacturing peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 425% of the Carbon inorganic compounds manufacturing benchmark, Hammond Expanders - Osborn Street reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Carbon inorganic compounds manufacturing sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.