Automotive, truck and bus suspension assemblies and parts (except springs) manufacturing · Indiana

Kendallville Plant 1

Kendallville, IN · ~149 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kendallville Plant 1 runs at 45% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Automotive, truck and bus suspension assemblies and parts (except springs) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Kendallville Plant 1: 2.5 TCR = 45% of Automotive, truck and bus suspension assemblies and parts (except springs) manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kendallville Plant 1 safety composite

Kendallville Plant 1 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−2.2

2016→2024

Kendallville Plant 1 injury rate improved

Kendallville Plant 1's TCR fell 2.2 from 4.5 in 2016 to 2.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.5 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=4.5 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=3.5 · 2021=0.7 · 2022=0.7 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336330 · Kendallville, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 2.5 · 45% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #3/7
  • PHOTO Tenneco Automotive
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~149 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tenneco Automotive (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kendallville Plant 1 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kendallville Plant 1 averages 2.5 TCR (45% of the Automotive, truck and bus suspension assemblies and parts (except springs) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kendallville Plant 1 TCR series: 2016=4.5 · 2017=0 · 2018=4.5 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=3.5 · 2021=0.7 · 2022=0.7 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=2.2 · BLS 5.4

Where Kendallville Plant 1 falls in its industry

134 Automotive, truck and bus susp establishments

Safer than 54% 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 #3 safest of 7 Automotive, truck and bus susp employers in Indiana.

Kendallville Plant 1 (149 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 192 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Kendallville Plant 1
Kendallville Plant 1 (149 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 192 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Kendallville Plant 1 has fewer employees than the Automotive, truck and bus suspension ass median and a lower 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
2024 2.2 1.5 6 0 0
2023 4.4 3.8 7 0 0
2022 0.7 0.7 1 0 0
2021 0.7 0.7 1 0 0
2020 3.5 2.6 4 0 0
2019 1.6 0.0 2 0 0
2018 4.5 3.9 7 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 4.5 2.2 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336330 · IN · Kendallville

134 Automotive, truck and bus suspension assemblies and parts (except springs) manufacturing 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 Tenneco Automotive 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dayco Products LLC 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR ZF Chassis Component-Newton 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR PMF Suspension 3128 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE FXI, Inc 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE Indianapolis Zionsville 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bway Valparaiso 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE TASUS Corporation (Indiana) 149 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 Waste Industries Wilmington 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Insight FS - Antigo 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Book Fairs - Dallas 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR C.A. Hull Co., Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE CB Clinton 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE Molex 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crown Lift Trucks Dallas 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advantage Tank Lines 20310 - Green Bay 149 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.