Tube (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, seamless, welded) made from purchased iron or steel · Indiana

Lock Joint Tube LLC Walnut St.

South Bend, IN · ~86 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lock Joint Tube LLC Walnut St. runs at 203% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Tube (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, seamless, welded) made from purchased iron or steel workplace, earning a grade F.

Lock Joint Tube LLC Walnut St.: 6.7 TCR = 203% of Tube (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, seamless, welded) made from purchased iron or steel BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lock Joint Tube LLC Walnut St. safety composite

Lock Joint Tube LLC Walnut St. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

−5.3

2018→2023

Lock Joint Tube LLC Walnut St. injury rate improved

Lock Joint Tube LLC Walnut St.'s TCR fell 5.3 from 9.3 in 2018 to 4.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 9.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=9.3 · 2023=4.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331210 · South Bend, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.7 · 203% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #13/16
  • PHOTO Metal-Matic, LLC Min…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~86 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Metal-Matic, LLC Minneapolis Plant (0.1 TCR gap)

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Lock Joint Tube LLC Walnut St. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lock Joint Tube LLC Walnut St. averages 6.7 TCR (203% of the Tube (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, seamless, welded) made from purchased iron or steel BLS benchmark).

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

Lock Joint Tube LLC Walnut St. TCR series: 2018=9.3 · 2023=4.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Lock Joint Tube LLC Walnut St. falls in its industry

329 Tube (e.g., heavy riveted, loc establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

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 16 Tube (e.g., heavy riveted, loc employers in Indiana.

Lock Joint Tube LLC Walnut St. (86 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Lock Joint Tube LLC Walnut St.
Lock Joint Tube LLC Walnut St. (86 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Lock Joint Tube LLC Walnut St. has fewer employees than the Tube (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, s median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2023 4.1 0.0 3 2 0
2018 9.3 4.2 8 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331210 · IN · South Bend

329 Tube (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, seamless, welded) made from purchased iron or steel employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 318 employers in South Bend, 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 Metal-Matic, LLC Minneapolis Plant 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Powerbrace Corporation 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bull Moose Tube 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Salem Tube, Inc 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Service Bird Crew / E-Crew 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Service / Bird Crew 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Preferred, Inc. - Fort Wayne 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Indy One Hour Heating and Air Conditioning 86 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorial Hospital South Bend 2,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph County 1,298 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fourwinds Casino South Bend 1,021 FTE
CITY-NEAR Honeywell IN08 810 FTE
NAT-TCR Cardinal Healthcare 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR American Red Cross - 2400 Asbury 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR San Juan County 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR United Aluminum 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sun Chemical St. Charles 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. John the Baptist Church & School 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mk North America, Inc. 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Westminster Pet 86 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: 2023, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.