Axle bearings, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · Indiana

Lafayette Plant

Lafayette, IN · ~567 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lafayette Plant runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Axle bearings, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Lafayette Plant: 2.1 TCR = 39% of Axle bearings, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lafayette Plant safety composite

Lafayette Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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

−3.5

2019→2022

Lafayette Plant injury rate improved

Lafayette Plant's TCR fell 3.5 from 3.9 in 2019 to 0.4 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 3.9 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=3.9 · 2020=2.6 · 2021=1.6 · 2022=0.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336350 · Lafayette, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 2.1 · 39% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #13/41
  • PHOTO Toledo Transmission …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 45 inj
  • SIZE ~567 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Toledo Transmission Operations (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lafayette Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lafayette Plant averages 2.1 TCR (39% of the Axle bearings, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Lafayette Plant TCR series: 2019=3.9 · 2020=2.6 · 2021=1.6 · 2022=0.4 · BLS 5.4

Where Lafayette Plant falls in its industry

320 Axle bearings, automotive, tru establishments

Safer than 63% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 41 Axle bearings, automotive, tru employers in Indiana.

Lafayette Plant (567 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 200 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Lafayette Plant
Lafayette Plant (567 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 200 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Lafayette Plant has more employees than the Axle bearings, automotive, truck, and bu median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2022 0.4 0.4 2 0 0
2021 1.6 0.6 7 1 0
2020 2.6 1.6 14 0 0
2019 3.9 2.1 22 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336350 · IN · Lafayette

320 Axle bearings, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 205 employers in Lafayette, 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 Toledo Transmission Operations 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR BorgWarner Livonia 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sese Industrial Services US Corp 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Felss Rotaform 2 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fort Wayne Headquaters 569 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMZL : DIN3 569 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMZL : DIN2 569 FTE
STATE-SIZE Family & Social Services Administration (00405) 565 FTE
CITY-NEAR Subaru of Indiana Automotive, Inc. 6,222 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lafayette Operations 3,025 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wabash Lafayette North 2,452 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arnett Hospital 2,070 FTE
NAT-TCR 3265 Family Fare (Mtn View,Rapid City,Sd) 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 2073-SW-20730026-MX 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR HG508 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Washington 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sutter Medical Center Sacramento (110-1002) 567 FTE
NAT-SIZE iHerb / Staffmark / Kimco - Perris, CA 567 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marietta Terminal-DOT 567 FTE
NAT-SIZE George's Harrisonburg Processing Plant 567 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.