Lear Corporation - Columbia City
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COLUMBIA CITY, IN | Automotive supplier
~529 avg employees | 5 years of OSHA data
Lear Corporation - Columbia City has an average TCR of 5.1, which is 94% of the industry average (5.4) for Automotive supplier. This is better than average.
Safety Insights for Lear Corporation - Columbia City
Lear Corporation - Columbia City operates an establishment with approximately 529 full-time equivalent workers in COLUMBIA CITY, IN, classified under the Automotive supplier industry (NAICS 336360). Across 5 years of mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reporting, this employer has accumulated 107 recordable injuries, 12 occupational illnesses, and 0 workplace fatalities. The average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.1 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year provides the anchor metric for the C letter grade (Average Safety Record).
Benchmarked against the Bureau of Labor Statistics industry average of 5.4 for Automotive supplier, Lear Corporation - Columbia City's workforce experiences 94% of the typical injury burden. This ratio matters because TCR already normalizes for hours worked — a 200,000-hour exposure base equals roughly 100 full-time workers — so establishments with very different headcounts can be compared directly. A TCR below the benchmark signals that controls, training, or automation may be outperforming peers.
Multi-year trend analysis is the single most reliable signal here: a one-year spike could reflect a single severe event, whereas sustained elevation across 5 reporting cycles points to systemic hazard exposure. Readers evaluating Lear Corporation - Columbia City as an employer, contractor, investment, or regulatory target should examine the yearly DART rate (days away, restricted, or transferred), the fatality count of 0, and any year-over-year deterioration shown in the table below. All figures come directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries — there is no modeling, estimation, or third-party adjustment layered on top of the government data.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
All injury, illness, and fatality figures on this page are sourced from Lear Corporation - Columbia City's own mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source — name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor — OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 336360 — Automotive supplier.
DART Rate — Transparent Calculation (2024)
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
6 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 808,493 hours worked = 1.48 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904 — OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context — Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Lear Corporation - Columbia City (this establishment) | 5.09 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 5-year avg |
| Motor vehicle interior systems (e.g., headliners, panels, seats, trims) manufacturing industry avg | 5.40 | BLS IIF, NAICS 336360 |
| Indiana state avg (all industries) | 21.66 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics — Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Lear Corporation - Columbia City to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2024: 8 reportable incidents · 8 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2023: 15 reportable incidents · 15 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 16 reportable incidents · 10 injuries, 6 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2021: 32 reportable incidents · 31 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2020: 48 reportable incidents · 43 injuries, 5 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) — inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.0 | 1.5 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 3.3 | 2.4 | 15 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 3.4 | 2.1 | 10 | 6 | 0 |
| 2021 | 6.7 | 6.3 | 31 | 1 | 0 |
| 2020 | 10.1 | 9.1 | 43 | 5 | 0 |
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