Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins · Indiana

Kendallville

Kendallville, IN · ~22 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kendallville runs at 106% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins workplace, earning a grade C.

Kendallville: 3.5 TCR = 106% of Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kendallville safety composite

Kendallville scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Kendallville: 0.0 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 8.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Kendallville's TCR rose 3.7 from 0.0 in 2017 to 3.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325991 · Kendallville, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 106% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #21/30
  • PHOTO SACO AEI Polymers, I…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SACO AEI Polymers, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kendallville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kendallville averages 3.5 TCR (106% of the Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins BLS benchmark).

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

Kendallville TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=4.3 · 2019=4.2 · 2020=0 · 2021=8.7 · 2023=3.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Kendallville falls in its industry

342 Custom compounding (i.e., blen establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 30 Custom compounding (i.e., blen employers in Indiana.

Kendallville (22 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 Kendallville
Kendallville (22 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Kendallville has fewer employees than the Custom compounding (i.e., blending and m median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2023 3.7 0.0 1 0 0
2021 8.7 4.4 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 4.2 4.2 1 0 0
2018 4.3 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325991 · IN · Kendallville

342 Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 37 employers in Kendallville, 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 SACO AEI Polymers, Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR UFP RETAIL 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Albion 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Star Plastics 3.5 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 Creative Liquid Coatings, Inc. Kendallville 711 FTE
CITY-NEAR LSC Communications 488 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1388 303 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kraft Heinz Company 300 FTE
NAT-TCR CryoWorks, Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Carroll EMC 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Gulf Shore Care Center 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR West Plains 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Plano Sales Office 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 9415 - 57th @ 195th 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Melco Steel 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ragland Mills, Inc 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: 2023, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.