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
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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.

Hammond Expanders - Osborn Street: 14.0 TCR = 425% of Carbon inorganic compounds manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hammond Expanders - Osborn Street safety composite

Hammond Expanders - Osborn Street scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

13/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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 - Osborn Street: 5.9 → 22.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 22.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.79× in 2017

Hammond Expanders - Osborn Street's TCR rose 16.1 from 5.9 in 2016 to 22.1 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 14.0 · 425% of ind

  • DART 11.0 DART
  • RANK #19/19
  • PHOTO Bolder Industries Ma…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bolder Industries Maryville, LLC (1.6 TCR gap)

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Hammond Expanders - Osborn Street in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hammond Expanders - Osborn Street averages 14.0 TCR (425% 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 - Osborn Street TCR series: 2016=5.9 · 2017=22.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Hammond Expanders - Osborn Street falls in its industry

418 Carbon inorganic compounds man establishments

Safer than 0% 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 #19 safest of 19 Carbon inorganic compounds man employers in Indiana.

Hammond Expanders - Osborn Street (20 employees, TCR 14.0) 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hammond Expanders - Osborn Street
Hammond Expanders - Osborn Street (20 employees, TCR 14.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Hammond Expanders - Osborn Street 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
2017 22.1 11.0 2 0 0
2016 5.9 5.9 1 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 Bolder Industries Maryville, LLC 15.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Legacy Lighting : Ivanhoe Rd - Cleveland, OH 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Chemet Corporation 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Roger Street Facility 9.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hoosierland Pork 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Interstate Family Farm, LLC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corydon Growout 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE HVA P&C Inc. 20 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 Western trailers 14.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Home Oxygen & DME 14.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Frattallone's Ace Hardware-New Hope 14.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Whip's Carpentry US LLC 14.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 105 Stonecrest Drive 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crown Lift Trucks Shreveport 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0787 - Cullman, Al 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0751 - Ridgecrest, Ca 20 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: 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.