Fabricated structural metal manufacturing · Indiana

New Nello Operating Co LLC

South Bend, IN · ~230 workers · 3 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

New Nello Operating Co LLC runs at 127% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fabricated structural metal manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

New Nello Operating Co LLC: 4.2 TCR = 127% of Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

New Nello Operating Co LLC safety composite

New Nello Operating Co LLC scores strongest on dart rate (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)
D 4.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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

−2.8

2022→2024

New Nello Operating Co LLC injury rate improved

New Nello Operating Co LLC's TCR fell 2.8 from 6.2 in 2022 to 3.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=6.2 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=3.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · South Bend, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 127% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #27/53
  • PHOTO River Bend Industries
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~230 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: River Bend Industries (0.0 TCR gap)

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New Nello Operating Co LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows New Nello Operating Co LLC averages 4.2 TCR (127% of the Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

New Nello Operating Co LLC TCR series: 2022=6.2 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=3.4 · BLS 3.3

Where New Nello Operating Co LLC falls in its industry

1,491 Fabricated structural metal ma establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 53 Fabricated structural metal ma employers in Indiana.

New Nello Operating Co LLC (230 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate New Nello Operating Co LLC
New Nello Operating Co LLC (230 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

New Nello Operating Co LLC has more employees than the Fabricated structural metal manufacturin median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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
2024 3.4 0.8 12 0 0
2023 2.9 0.0 7 0 0
2022 6.2 1.4 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · IN · South Bend

1,491 Fabricated structural metal manufacturing 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 River Bend Industries 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gerdau- Muskogee RS 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR CONTECH GADST 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ohio Structures, Inc. 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE CMH Manufacturing West Inc. Plant 981 230 FTE
STATE-SIZE Exelead, Inc 230 FTE
STATE-SIZE Owens-Illinois, Inc. Lapel Plant#8 230 FTE
STATE-SIZE Columbus Manufacturing Facility 230 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 D3230 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR MSU - Union 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR HealthTrust - North Carolina Divisoin Supply Chain - NC 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 8988 Lake Elsinore 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Covenant Living at Mount Miguel 230 FTE
NAT-SIZE NGSP-CA38 230 FTE
NAT-SIZE United Heating Cooling & Plumbing 230 FTE
NAT-SIZE NPXONE 230 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.