Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel · Indiana

Nippon Steel Cold Heading Wire Indiana Inc.

Shelbyville, IN · ~47 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nippon Steel Cold Heading Wire Indiana Inc. runs at 193% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel workplace, earning a grade D.

Nippon Steel Cold Heading Wire Indiana Inc.: 6.4 TCR = 193% of Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nippon Steel Cold Heading Wire Indiana Inc. safety composite

Nippon Steel Cold Heading Wire Indiana Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Nippon Steel Cold Heading Wire Indiana Inc.: 1.9 → 10.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 10.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.28× in 2020

Nippon Steel Cold Heading Wire Indiana Inc.'s TCR rose 9.0 from 1.9 in 2019 to 10.9 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331222 · Shelbyville, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.4 · 193% of ind

  • DART 8.2 DART
  • RANK #16/19
  • PHOTO LABECA - Ferguson
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LABECA - Ferguson (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nippon Steel Cold Heading Wire Indiana Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nippon Steel Cold Heading Wire Indiana Inc. averages 6.4 TCR (193% of the Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel BLS benchmark).

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

Nippon Steel Cold Heading Wire Indiana Inc. TCR series: 2019=1.9 · 2020=10.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Nippon Steel Cold Heading Wire Indiana Inc. falls in its industry

163 Drawing iron or steel wire fro establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

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 19 Drawing iron or steel wire fro employers in Indiana.

Nippon Steel Cold Heading Wire Indiana Inc. (47 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 Nippon Steel Cold Heading Wire Indiana Inc.
Nippon Steel Cold Heading Wire Indiana Inc. (47 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Nippon Steel Cold Heading Wire Indiana Inc. has fewer employees than the Drawing iron or steel wire from purchase median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 10.9 8.2 4 0 0
2019 1.9 1.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331222 · IN · Shelbyville

163 Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 69 employers in Shelbyville, 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 LABECA - Ferguson 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wire Mesh Texas 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Taubensee Steel & Wire Wheeling Plant 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advanced Material Development 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE AquaBounty Farms Indiana LLC 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Remington Plant 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Francesville 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Boone REMC 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR Indiana Grand 1,033 FTE
CITY-NEAR HORSESHOE INDIANAPOLIS 877 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ryobi Die Casting (USA) INC 779 FTE
CITY-NEAR Penske : 5076-00 Kroger-DCM/Shelbyville, IN 581 FTE
NAT-TCR CARS Recon Inc Sarasota 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Safety Marking of New York Inc. 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR T580 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Austin - Kyle 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE TETRA Technologies, Inc. - El Dorado, AR 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Rapids 123 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carpet Recycling #1- AZ 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Cedar Ridge 47 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.