Trash containers, plastics, manufacturing · Indiana

K & M Indiana dba Mitchell Plastics

Charlestown, IN · ~428 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

K & M Indiana dba Mitchell Plastics runs at 57% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Trash containers, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

K & M Indiana dba Mitchell Plastics: 1.9 TCR = 57% of Trash containers, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

K & M Indiana dba Mitchell Plastics safety composite

K & M Indiana dba Mitchell Plastics scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% 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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% 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

−1.6

2016→2020

K & M Indiana dba Mitchell Plastics injury rate improved

K & M Indiana dba Mitchell Plastics's TCR fell 1.6 from 2.4 in 2016 to 0.8 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.9 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.4 · 2017=2.9 · 2018=2.1 · 2019=1.2 · 2020=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Charlestown, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 57% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #36/143
  • PHOTO Ajax Window Corp. db…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~428 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ajax Window Corp. dba Polar Seal Window Corp. (0.0 TCR gap)

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K & M Indiana dba Mitchell Plastics in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows K & M Indiana dba Mitchell Plastics averages 1.9 TCR (57% of the Trash containers, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

K & M Indiana dba Mitchell Plastics TCR series: 2016=2.4 · 2017=2.9 · 2018=2.1 · 2019=1.2 · 2020=0.8 · BLS 3.3

Where K & M Indiana dba Mitchell Plastics falls in its industry

2,838 Trash containers, plastics, ma establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #36 safest of 143 Trash containers, plastics, ma employers in Indiana.

K & M Indiana dba Mitchell Plastics (428 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate K & M Indiana dba Mitchell Plastics
K & M Indiana dba Mitchell Plastics (428 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

K & M Indiana dba Mitchell Plastics has more employees than the Trash containers, plastics, manufacturin median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 0.8 0.3 3 0 0
2019 1.2 0.5 5 0 0
2018 2.1 0.8 8 0 0
2017 2.9 0.8 11 0 0
2016 2.4 0.8 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · IN · Charlestown

2,838 Trash containers, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 19 employers in Charlestown, 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 Ajax Window Corp. dba Polar Seal Window Corp. 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bel-Art Products, Pocomoke, MD 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR ROYAL ALUMINUM CO. INC 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Polymer Molding, Inc 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ceva Logistics Allpoints 168201G 428 FTE
STATE-SIZE IN-Indianapolis-Operating Center 427 FTE
STATE-SIZE Indianapolis Orthopaedic Hospital 429 FTE
STATE-SIZE Donaldson Company, Inc. 426 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ultra Manufacturing USA dba Mitchell Plastics 383 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dart Warehouse Corporation - Riverridge / Port Road 262 FTE
CITY-NEAR 024-00057 156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Charlestown 148 FTE
NAT-TCR VT Mobile Aerospace Engineering, Inc 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR A & A Machinery Moving, Inc. Morrisville, PA 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Southern Recycling LLC Pensacola 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Texas Outhouse 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Advent Christian Village 428 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2077-Us Ro Nw Raynham Office 428 FTE
NAT-SIZE ENPX, NAPX - EHI Phoenix 428 FTE
NAT-SIZE ESI Electrical Contractors 428 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.