Bolts, metal, manufacturing · Indiana

Key Fasteners Corp

Berne, IN · ~83 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Key Fasteners Corp runs at 191% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bolts, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Key Fasteners Corp: 6.3 TCR = 191% of Bolts, metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Key Fasteners Corp safety composite

Key Fasteners Corp scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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

Key Fasteners Corp: 0.0 → 10.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.19× in 2024

Key Fasteners Corp's TCR rose 10.8 from 0.0 in 2021 to 10.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332722 · Berne, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 191% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #18/23
  • PHOTO Lewis Bolt and Nut C…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~83 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lewis Bolt and Nut Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Key Fasteners Corp in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Key Fasteners Corp averages 6.3 TCR (191% of the Bolts, metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Key Fasteners Corp TCR series: 2021=0 · 2023=8.1 · 2024=10.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Key Fasteners Corp falls in its industry

335 Bolts, metal, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 19% 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 #18 safest of 23 Bolts, metal, manufacturing employers in Indiana.

Key Fasteners Corp (83 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 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 Key Fasteners Corp
Key Fasteners Corp (83 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Key Fasteners Corp has more employees than the Bolts, metal, manufacturing median and a higher 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
2024 10.8 1.2 2 7 0
2023 8.1 5.4 5 1 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332722 · IN · Berne

335 Bolts, metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 10 employers in Berne, 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 Lewis Bolt and Nut Company 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Allesco Industries, Inc., dba Eastern Screw 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Terrie Deeg 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MacLean Fogg Fastener Components 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Harding Street Station 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE 355-NiSource-Valparaiso IN-Operating HQ 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Roberts Pipeline Inc 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Indy Steel Erectors, Inc. 83 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smith Brothers of Berne 527 FTE
CITY-NEAR Swiss Village Retirement Community 302 FTE
CITY-NEAR EP Graphics 137 FTE
CITY-NEAR Poseidon Barge - Berne 86 FTE
NAT-TCR Robert Nickerson Farms, Inc. 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Megawall 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR RJ Schinner Branch 10 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DNJ7 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Preferred Cartage Service, Inc. 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Madison County School District 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Western Ready Mix 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ontario -Frozen Food Express Industries, Inc. / FFE Transportation 83 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, 2021. 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.