Pallet containers, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing · Indiana

Hammond Plant

Hammond, IN · ~46 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hammond Plant runs at 455% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pallet containers, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Hammond Plant: 15.0 TCR = 455% of Pallet containers, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hammond Plant safety composite

Hammond Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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%).

TCR Δ

−7.2

2016→2019

Hammond Plant injury rate improved

Hammond Plant's TCR fell 7.2 from 18.6 in 2016 to 11.4 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 18.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=18.6 · 2019=11.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321920 · Hammond, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.0 · 455% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #27/31
  • PHOTO Girard Wood Products…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Girard Wood Products Orting (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hammond Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hammond Plant averages 15.0 TCR (455% of the Pallet containers, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hammond Plant TCR series: 2016=18.6 · 2019=11.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Hammond Plant falls in its industry

952 Pallet containers, wood or woo establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 31 Pallet containers, wood or woo employers in Indiana.

Hammond Plant (46 employees, TCR 15.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Hammond Plant
Hammond Plant (46 employees, TCR 15.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3

Hammond Plant has fewer employees than the Pallet containers, wood or wood and meta median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.3. 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 11.4 3.8 3 0 0
2016 18.6 6.2 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321920 · IN · Hammond

952 Pallet containers, wood or wood and metal combination, 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 Girard Wood Products Orting 15.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nefab Packaging North central LLC 15.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Pallets, Inc. 15.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Belvidere Recycling LLC 15.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Legacy Parlor 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE 161-NiSource-Hammond IN-Gas Opns Center 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Milhaus Construction LLC 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Moore Restoration Inc 46 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 Family Practice Center of Hyde Park 15.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Stillwater (Oksti) 15.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Somerford House & Place Hagerstown 15.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Chehalis West Assisted Living 15.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 287 ABC Supply Co., Inc 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Madison East Courtyard 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Summit Utility Structures 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Maschhoffs, LLC - Columbus Office 46 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, 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.