Steel manufacturing · Indiana

I/N Tek & Kote

New Carlisle, IN · ~517 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

I/N Tek & Kote runs at 92% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Steel manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

I/N Tek & Kote: 3.0 TCR = 92% of Steel manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

I/N Tek & Kote safety composite

I/N Tek & Kote scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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).

D

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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: 1.4 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 5.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.4× in 2018

I/N Tek & Kote's TCR rose 0.7 from 1.4 in 2016 to 2.1 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.4× 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 3.0 · 92% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #32/42
  • PHOTO M&S Steel, Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~517 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: M&S Steel, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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I/N Tek & Kote in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows I/N Tek & Kote averages 3.0 TCR (92% of the Steel manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

I/N Tek & Kote TCR series: 2016=1.4 · 2017=5.6 · 2018=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where I/N Tek & Kote falls in its industry

416 Steel manufacturing establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 42 Steel manufacturing employers in Indiana.

I/N Tek & Kote (517 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate I/N Tek & Kote
I/N Tek & Kote (517 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

I/N Tek & Kote 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
2018 2.1 1.2 9 3 0
2017 5.6 1.6 12 20 0
2016 1.4 0.9 8 0 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR M&S Steel, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR IronUnits LLC 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Universal Stainless - Bridgeville 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gerdau-Wilton Mill 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Carter Express - Anderson, IN 515 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 6022 515 FTE
STATE-SIZE C1 Fort Wayne Campus 519 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Kokomo 515 FTE
CITY-NEAR I/N Tek & Kote (EIN: I/N Tek 36-5225438; I/N Kote 36-3665288) 494 FTE
CITY-NEAR 102962 - St Joseph Energy Center 234 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Carlisle Facility 153 FTE
CITY-NEAR R+L Carriers - SBI 124 FTE
NAT-TCR GA Distribution Center 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR NIC Industries, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR TRICITIES 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Merced RTS 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Scioto Downs 517 FTE
NAT-SIZE HoneywellKS07 517 FTE
NAT-SIZE 494 Broad St 517 FTE
NAT-SIZE Beachwood Family Health & Surgery Center 517 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: 2018, 2017, 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.