Cylinders, pressure, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing · Indiana

Manchester Tank & Equipment

Bedford, IN · ~130 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Manchester Tank & Equipment runs at 384% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cylinders, pressure, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Manchester Tank & Equipment: 12.7 TCR = 384% of Cylinders, pressure, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Manchester Tank & Equipment safety composite

Manchester Tank & Equipment scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Manchester Tank & Equipment: 12.0 → 13.3 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 13.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.7× in 2017

Manchester Tank & Equipment's TCR rose 1.3 from 12.0 in 2016 to 13.3 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332420 · Bedford, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 12.7 · 384% of ind

  • DART 8.9 DART
  • RANK #16/17
  • PHOTO Wabash Lafayette Pro…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~130 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wabash Lafayette Process Systems (0.0 TCR gap)

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Manchester Tank & Equipment in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Manchester Tank & Equipment averages 12.7 TCR (384% of the Cylinders, pressure, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Manchester Tank & Equipment TCR series: 2016=12 · 2017=13.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Manchester Tank & Equipment falls in its industry

355 Cylinders, pressure, heavy gau establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 17 Cylinders, pressure, heavy gau employers in Indiana.

Manchester Tank & Equipment (130 employees, TCR 12.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Manchester Tank & Equipment
Manchester Tank & Equipment (130 employees, TCR 12.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Manchester Tank & Equipment has more employees than the Cylinders, pressure, heavy gauge metal, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2017 13.3 8.9 19 2 0
2016 12.0 8.8 13 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332420 · IN · Bedford

355 Cylinders, pressure, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 53 employers in Bedford, 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 Wabash Lafayette Process Systems 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mid-State Tank Co., Inc. - Plant 3 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bird Equipment LLC of Ohio 12.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR MPV Morganton Pressure Vessel North Carolina LLC 12.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Calumet Civil Contractors, Inc 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1030 S.Kitley AVE 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hill's Pet Nutrition Indiana Inc. 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dynamic Packaging Solutions, Inc. 130 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Motors Bedford 818 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1026 394 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1026 363 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bedford Hospital 361 FTE
NAT-TCR 0303 - Bowling Green, Ky 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Missoula (Mtmis) 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Fresno Center (Cafre) 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Austin Wood Recycling 12.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE MTS Grand Praire 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tremron - JAXP 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wixom (Miwix) 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Joseph Center (Mijos) 130 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: 2017, 2016. 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.