Cylinders, pressure, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing · Indiana

Kennedy Tank & Mfg. Company

Indianapolis, IN · ~80 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kennedy Tank & Mfg. Company runs at 176% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cylinders, pressure, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Kennedy Tank & Mfg. Company: 5.8 TCR = 176% of Cylinders, pressure, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kennedy Tank & Mfg. Company safety composite

Kennedy Tank & Mfg. Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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

−7.5

2017→2019

Kennedy Tank & Mfg. Company injury rate improved

Kennedy Tank & Mfg. Company's TCR fell 7.5 from 10.3 in 2017 to 2.7 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.3 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=10.3 · 2018=4.5 · 2019=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332420 · Indianapolis, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 176% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #10/17
  • PHOTO Quality Steel Corpor…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Quality Steel Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kennedy Tank & Mfg. Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kennedy Tank & Mfg. Company averages 5.8 TCR (176% of the Cylinders, pressure, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kennedy Tank & Mfg. Company TCR series: 2017=10.3 · 2018=4.5 · 2019=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Kennedy Tank & Mfg. Company falls in its industry

355 Cylinders, pressure, heavy gau establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 17 Cylinders, pressure, heavy gau employers in Indiana.

Kennedy Tank & Mfg. Company (80 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kennedy Tank & Mfg. Company
Kennedy Tank & Mfg. Company (80 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Kennedy Tank & Mfg. Company has more employees than the Cylinders, pressure, heavy gauge metal, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2019 2.7 0.9 3 0 0
2018 4.5 1.1 4 0 0
2017 10.3 1.5 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332420 · IN · Indianapolis

355 Cylinders, pressure, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 2,074 employers in Indianapolis, 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 Quality Steel Corporation 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Phoenix Fabricators and Erectors 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dragon Products Springer 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eaton Sales and Service 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE 180-NiSource-Crown Point IN-Operating HQ 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE XL Industrial Services, Inc. 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Directline Communications Inc. 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elbrecht Investments 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR Indiana University Health, Inc 7,874 FTE
CITY-NEAR Methodist Hospital 6,862 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eli Lilly - Lilly Corp Center 6,482 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lilly Technology Center 6,472 FTE
NAT-TCR ci Metal Fabrication 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Paragon D&E 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sweetwater Healthcare Center 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Progressive Campus 2 Starbucks (Mentor** 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE NGC - Apollo Beach 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fayetteville Academy 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ardagh Metal Packaging USA, Inc. - Weirton 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lathrop # 9256 80 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.