Cylinders, pressure, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing · Indiana

Manchester Tank & Equipment

Elkhart, IN · ~181 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Manchester Tank & Equipment runs at 112% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cylinders, pressure, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Manchester Tank & Equipment: 3.7 TCR = 112% of Cylinders, pressure, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y 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 20%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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: 1.7 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 5.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.1× in 2020

Manchester Tank & Equipment's TCR rose 3.6 from 1.7 in 2016 to 5.2 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 112% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #5/17
  • PHOTO Stanwade Metal Produ…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~181 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Stanwade Metal Products, Inc. (Hartford) (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 3.7 TCR (112% 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=1.7 · 2017=3.2 · 2018=4.6 · 2019=3.8 · 2020=5.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Manchester Tank & Equipment falls in its industry

355 Cylinders, pressure, heavy gau establishments

Safer than 49% 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 #5 safest of 17 Cylinders, pressure, heavy gau employers in Indiana.

Manchester Tank & Equipment (181 employees, TCR 3.7) 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 (181 employees, TCR 3.7) 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
2020 5.2 4.1 8 1 0
2019 3.8 1.4 6 2 0
2018 4.6 2.3 9 1 0
2017 3.2 2.6 5 1 0
2016 1.7 0.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332420 · IN · Elkhart

355 Cylinders, pressure, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 401 employers in Elkhart, 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 Stanwade Metal Products, Inc. (Hartford) 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shaw Development 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chart, Inc. Southeast Repair Facility 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Feldmeier Equipment Syracuse 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE BCI Solutions 181 FTE
STATE-SIZE MERRILLVILLE IN - 3504 181 FTE
STATE-SIZE 021-00424 181 FTE
STATE-SIZE Transportation 181 FTE
CITY-NEAR Forest River, Inc. 12,549 FTE
CITY-NEAR THOR MOTOR COACH 2,437 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elkhart Community Schools 1,892 FTE
CITY-NEAR HRV LLC 1,692 FTE
NAT-TCR Eastern Division Oak Grove Office 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Smithfield Direct, Atlanta 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Selective Wrecking & Abatement LLC 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Sendik's Food Market New Berlin 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Jewish Hospital Shelbyville 181 FTE
NAT-SIZE Joslyn Sunbank Co., LLC 181 FTE
NAT-SIZE Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Rock Hill 181 FTE
NAT-SIZE State Utility Contractors, Inc. Monroe 181 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.