Drywall and related building materials distributor · Indiana

IPS Ft Wayne

Fort Wayne, IN · ~22 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

IPS Ft Wayne runs at 65% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Drywall and related building materials distributor workplace, earning a grade B.

IPS Ft Wayne: 1.4 TCR = 65% of Drywall and related building materials distributor BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

IPS Ft Wayne safety composite

IPS Ft Wayne scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

IPS Ft Wayne held a steady TCR band

IPS Ft Wayne's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=0.0 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423310 · Fort Wayne, IN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.4 · 65% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/16
  • PHOTO Alliance Door & Hard…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Alliance Door & Hardware Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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IPS Ft Wayne in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows IPS Ft Wayne averages 1.4 TCR (65% of the Drywall and related building materials distributor BLS benchmark).

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

IPS Ft Wayne TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where IPS Ft Wayne falls in its industry

1,225 Drywall and related building m establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

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 16 Drywall and related building m employers in Indiana.

IPS Ft Wayne (22 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 020406080100120 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate IPS Ft Wayne
IPS Ft Wayne (22 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 4.2

IPS Ft Wayne has fewer employees than the Drywall and related building materials d median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 4.3 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423310 · IN · Fort Wayne

1,225 Drywall and related building materials distributor employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 634 employers in Fort Wayne, 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 Alliance Door & Hardware Inc 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rayner & Rinn-Scott Inc Bedford Park 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Woodgrain - North 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Floor HDQ 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wilson Fertilizer, Inc. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE MISHAWAKA CONCRETE ASPHALT RECYCLE INC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE MCAR 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Connersville District Office 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview Memorial Hospital 6,096 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview North Hospital 4,648 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview Corporate Office 3,312 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shambaugh & Son LP 3,072 FTE
NAT-TCR IRWINDALE 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Zamora 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Topeka Plant 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR STR0269 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tucker Spartanburg 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Capitol Palmetto 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE MO Drywall Hazelwood 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Whelco Industrial, Ltd 22 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. 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.