Steel wire drawing · Indiana

LABECA - Ferguson

Ft Wayne, IN · ~45 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

LABECA - Ferguson runs at 194% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Steel wire drawing workplace, earning a grade D.

LABECA - Ferguson: 6.4 TCR = 194% of Steel wire drawing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

LABECA - Ferguson safety composite

LABECA - Ferguson scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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).

F

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

−1.0

2018→2024

LABECA - Ferguson injury rate improved

LABECA - Ferguson's TCR fell 1.0 from 9.9 in 2018 to 8.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 11.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=9.9 · 2019=11.4 · 2020=2.9 · 2021=5.0 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=8.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331222 · Ft Wayne, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.4 · 194% of ind

  • DART 8.9 DART
  • RANK #17/19
  • PHOTO Nippon Steel Cold He…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nippon Steel Cold Heading Wire Indiana Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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LABECA - Ferguson in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows LABECA - Ferguson averages 6.4 TCR (194% of the Steel wire drawing BLS benchmark).

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

LABECA - Ferguson TCR series: 2018=9.9 · 2019=11.4 · 2020=2.9 · 2021=5 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=8.9 · BLS 3.3

Where LABECA - Ferguson falls in its industry

163 Steel wire drawing establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 19 Steel wire drawing employers in Indiana.

LABECA - Ferguson (45 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate LABECA - Ferguson
LABECA - Ferguson (45 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8

LABECA - Ferguson has fewer employees than the Steel wire drawing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 8.9 8.9 4 0 0
2023 4.4 4.4 2 0 0
2022 2.3 0.0 1 0 0
2021 5.0 0.0 2 0 0
2020 2.9 2.9 1 0 0
2019 11.4 4.6 5 0 0
2018 9.9 2.5 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331222 · IN · Ft Wayne

163 Steel wire drawing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 33 employers in Ft Wayne, 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 Nippon Steel Cold Heading Wire Indiana Inc. 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wire Mesh Texas 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Taubensee Steel & Wire Wheeling Plant 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advanced Material Development 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE J Star Farms LLC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Windfall, IN 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Oil Field Services LLC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Patoka Lake Regional Water & Sewer District 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR FWMRPC (all) 1,121 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Wayne Headquarters 573 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Wayne One Summit Square 211 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Wayne Bakery 204 FTE
NAT-TCR Eufaula FP Plant 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Gene'S Heartland Foods 704 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR MH Blue Ridge Medical Center, LLLP 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Romanoff Electric Residental - Cincinnati 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cheltenham 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE CBF Bakery Systems 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amwaste LaGrange 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Skinner Tank Company 45 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. 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.