Gases, industrial (i.e., compressed, liquefied, solid), manufacturing · Indiana

Linde - Hammond

Hammond, IN · ~30 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Linde - Hammond runs at 94% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Gases, industrial (i.e., compressed, liquefied, solid), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Linde - Hammond: 3.1 TCR = 94% of Gases, industrial (i.e., compressed, liquefied, solid), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Linde - Hammond safety composite

Linde - Hammond scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Linde - Hammond: 0.0 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 6.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.05× in 2018

Linde - Hammond's TCR rose 3.3 from 0.0 in 2016 to 3.3 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.1 TCR. In 2018, DART was 1.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325120 · Hammond, IN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 94% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #11/19
  • PHOTO Cherokee
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cherokee (0.0 TCR gap)

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Linde - Hammond in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Linde - Hammond averages 3.1 TCR (94% of the Gases, industrial (i.e., compressed, liquefied, solid), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Linde - Hammond TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=6.1 · 2018=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Linde - Hammond falls in its industry

295 Gases, industrial (i.e., compr establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 19 Gases, industrial (i.e., compr employers in Indiana.

Linde - Hammond (30 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 020406080100120 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Linde - Hammond
Linde - Hammond (30 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Linde - Hammond has fewer employees than the Gases, industrial (i.e., compressed, liq median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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
2018 3.3 3.3 1 0 0
2017 6.1 6.1 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325120 · IN · Hammond

295 Gases, industrial (i.e., compressed, liquefied, solid), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 136 employers in Hammond, 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 Cherokee 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Air Liquide Advanced Materials - High Springs 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Reclamation Technologies Inc DBA A-Gas Americas 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Indiana Oxygen Company 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Noblesville Generating Station 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lawrenceburg Power, LLC 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE HQ 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steuben County REMC 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR HORSESHOE HAMMOND 1,312 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lear Corporation - Hammond 920 FTE
CITY-NEAR Franciscan Health Hammond 535 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2818 419 FTE
NAT-TCR Lexington Healthcare of La Grange 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Flint - KUKA Assembly and Test Corp. 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Card-Monroe Corp. 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR PCUD 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Linde - Terrell 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Linde - Aiken 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arc Twin Cities Brooklyn Center 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Starr 30 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.