Aluminum bar made by extruding purchased aluminum · Indiana

Hydro Elkhart

Elkhart, IN · ~164 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hydro Elkhart runs at 25% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Aluminum bar made by extruding purchased aluminum workplace, earning a grade A.

Hydro Elkhart: 0.8 TCR = 25% of Aluminum bar made by extruding purchased aluminum BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hydro Elkhart safety composite

Hydro Elkhart scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.4

2019→2024

Hydro Elkhart injury rate improved

Hydro Elkhart's TCR fell 1.4 from 1.4 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 2.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=1.4 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=2.1 · 2022=1.5 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331318 · Elkhart, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 25% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/12
  • PHOTO Beneke Wire Company
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~164 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Beneke Wire Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hydro Elkhart in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hydro Elkhart averages 0.8 TCR (25% of the Aluminum bar made by extruding purchased aluminum BLS benchmark).

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

Hydro Elkhart TCR series: 2019=1.4 · 2020=0 · 2021=2.1 · 2022=1.5 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Hydro Elkhart falls in its industry

204 Aluminum bar made by extruding establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

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 12 Aluminum bar made by extruding employers in Indiana.

Hydro Elkhart (164 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 144 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Hydro Elkhart
Hydro Elkhart (164 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 144 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Hydro Elkhart has more employees than the Aluminum bar made by extruding purchased median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 1.5 0.0 0 3 0
2021 2.1 2.1 1 3 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 1.4 0.5 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331318 · IN · Elkhart

204 Aluminum bar made by extruding purchased aluminum 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 Beneke Wire Company 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hydro Gainesville 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bonnell Aluminum 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hydro - Gainesville 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Stevens Engineers & Constructors - Hobart 164 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4582 Plymouth Food Service Packaging 164 FTE
STATE-SIZE TASUS 164 FTE
STATE-SIZE American Window and Glass, Inc 164 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 Wildwood Operations Center Complex 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Battle Ground Sd 119 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR NYC 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Hatch Plant 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Schuylkill Center 164 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arizona Field 164 FTE
NAT-SIZE Accurate Mechanical, Inc. 164 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jamaica 2 Day Hab Offices 164 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. 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.