Drop forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished · Indiana

Modern Forge Indiana

Merrillville, IN · ~214 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Modern Forge Indiana runs at 128% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Drop forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished workplace, earning a grade D.

Modern Forge Indiana: 4.2 TCR = 128% of Drop forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Modern Forge Indiana safety composite

Modern Forge Indiana scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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

−3.2

2016→2024

Modern Forge Indiana injury rate improved

Modern Forge Indiana's TCR fell 3.2 from 7.0 in 2016 to 3.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.0 · 2017=4.9 · 2018=3.9 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=2.8 · 2021=5.1 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=3.2 · 2024=3.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332111 · Merrillville, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 128% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #3/5
  • PHOTO American Pan Company
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 73 inj
  • SIZE ~214 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: American Pan Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Modern Forge Indiana in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Modern Forge Indiana averages 4.2 TCR (128% of the Drop forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS benchmark).

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

Modern Forge Indiana TCR series: 2016=7 · 2017=4.9 · 2018=3.9 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=2.8 · 2021=5.1 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=3.2 · 2024=3.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Modern Forge Indiana falls in its industry

241 Drop forgings made from purcha establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 5 Drop forgings made from purcha employers in Indiana.

Modern Forge Indiana (214 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 Modern Forge Indiana
Modern Forge Indiana (214 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0

Modern Forge Indiana has more employees than the Drop forgings made from purchased iron o median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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
2024 3.8 1.9 5 1 0
2023 3.2 0.0 6 0 0
2022 4.8 1.4 10 0 0
2021 5.1 2.0 7 3 0
2020 2.8 0.0 5 0 0
2019 2.4 1.0 4 1 0
2018 3.9 2.0 10 0 0
2017 4.9 1.0 10 0 0
2016 7.0 4.1 16 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332111 · IN · Merrillville

241 Drop forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 97 employers in Merrillville, 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 American Pan Company 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR East 78th Plant 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maximum Security Products Corp 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Precision Machine, Inc. 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Elkhart (00110) Brown Box Welch Packaging 214 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenfield 214 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mt. Vernon Shingle 214 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greendale Catalent 214 FTE
CITY-NEAR 275-NiSource-Merrillville IN-SLC 796 FTE
CITY-NEAR Albanese Confectionery Group 591 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1618 377 FTE
CITY-NEAR Regional Mental Health Center 371 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 1093 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Warren 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR DH Pace Company - Tampa 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Mt. Hood Hospice 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nelson Irrigation Corporation 214 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Ingleside Hotel 214 FTE
NAT-SIZE School Bus Drivers, Inc. 214 FTE
NAT-SIZE 60 - Dickson 214 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 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.