Steel manufacturing · Indiana

I/N Tek & Kote (EIN: I/N Tek 36-5225438; I/N Kote 36-3665288)

Name: I/N Tek & Kote (EIN: I/N Tek 36-5225438; I/N Kote 36-3665288) Workplace Safety Data
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New Carlisle, IN · ~494 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.1
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

I/N Tek & Kote (EIN: I/N Tek 36-5225438; I/N Kote 36-3665288) runs at 95% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Steel manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

I/N Tek & Kote (EIN: I/N Tek 36-5225438; I/N Kote 36-3665288): 3.1 TCR = 95% of Steel manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

I/N Tek & Kote (EIN: I/N Tek 36-5225438; I/N Kote 36-3665288) safety composite

I/N Tek & Kote (EIN: I/N Tek 36-5225438; I/N Kote 36-3665288) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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).

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 3.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers
DART rate: F 4.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 53% 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

I/N Tek & Kote (EIN: I/N Tek 36-5225438; I/N Kote 36-3665288): 1.2 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 5.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.42× in 2020

I/N Tek & Kote (EIN: I/N Tek 36-5225438; I/N Kote 36-3665288)'s TCR rose 3.8 from 1.2 in 2019 to 5.0 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · New Carlisle, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 95% of ind

DART 4.4 DART
RANK #33/42
PHOTO Dunkirk Specialty St…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 13 inj
SIZE ~494 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dunkirk Specialty Steel (0.0 TCR gap)

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Steel Ventures

3.2
This site

3.1
Dunkirk Specia

3.1
SSAB Iowa Inc.

3.1
MOBIS

3.1

What this shows I/N Tek & Kote (EIN: I/N Tek 36-5225438; I/N Kote 36-3665288) averages 3.1 TCR (95% of the Steel manufacturing BLS benchmark).

I/N Tek & Kote (EIN: I/N Tek 36-5225438; I/N Kote 36-3665288) TCR series: 2019=1.2 · 2020=5 · BLS 3.3

Where I/N Tek & Kote (EIN: I/N Tek 36-5225438; I/N Kote 36-3665288) falls in its industry

416 Steel manufacturing establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #33 safest of 42 Steel manufacturing employers in Indiana.

I/N Tek & Kote (EIN: I/N Tek 36-5225438; I/N Kote 36-3665288) (494 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

I/N Tek & Kote (EIN: I/N Tek 36-5225438; I/N Kote 36-3665288) has more employees than the Steel manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2020	5.0	4.4	8	17	0
2019	1.2	0.5	5	2	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · IN · New Carlisle

416 Steel manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 23 employers in New Carlisle, IN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Dunkirk Specialty Steel	DUNKIRK, NY	3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	SSAB Iowa Inc.	MUSCATINE, IA	3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Steel Ventures, Inc.	GREENUP, KY	3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	MOBIS	MONTGOMERY, AL	3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE	WCI	CLINTON	494 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Vehicle Service Group	MADISON	495 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Howard County Work Release	KOKOMO	493 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Vectren Corporation - Wagner	EVANSVILLE	496 FTE
CITY-NEAR	I/N Tek & Kote	New Carlisle	517 FTE
CITY-NEAR	102962 - St Joseph Energy Center	New Carlisle	234 FTE
CITY-NEAR	New Carlisle Facility	New Carlisle	153 FTE
CITY-NEAR	R+L Carriers - SBI	New Carlisle	124 FTE
NAT-TCR	Retail Yard	Tacoma, WA	3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	BWI Baltimore Airport	Baltimore, MD	3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Industrial Tools, Inc.	Oxnard, CA	3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	ANT	Greensboro, NC	3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Endeavor Air, Inc. - MSP Flight Operations and Inflight Base	St. Paul, MN	494 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Cs2 - Community Services, Employment & Training	Tucson, AZ	494 FTE
NAT-SIZE	GROWMARK, Inc.	Bloomington, IL	494 FTE
NAT-SIZE	RailWorks Track Systems, Inc.	New York, NY	494 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: 2020, 2019. 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.