Mechanical rubber goods (i.e., extruded, lathe-cut, molded) manufacturing · Indiana

NISCO-Fort Wayne

Fort Wayne, IN · ~226 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

NISCO-Fort Wayne runs at 24% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Mechanical rubber goods (i.e., extruded, lathe-cut, molded) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

NISCO-Fort Wayne: 0.8 TCR = 24% of Mechanical rubber goods (i.e., extruded, lathe-cut, molded) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NISCO-Fort Wayne safety composite

NISCO-Fort Wayne scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% 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).

B

81/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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

NISCO-Fort Wayne: 0.8 → 1.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 1.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2022

NISCO-Fort Wayne's TCR rose 0.5 from 0.8 in 2016 to 1.2 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 1.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326291 · Fort Wayne, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 24% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/20
  • PHOTO VIP Rubber and Plast…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~226 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: VIP Rubber and Plastic Company Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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NISCO-Fort Wayne in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows NISCO-Fort Wayne averages 0.8 TCR (24% of the Mechanical rubber goods (i.e., extruded, lathe-cut, molded) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

NISCO-Fort Wayne TCR series: 2016=0.8 · 2017=0.8 · 2018=1.2 · 2019=1 · 2020=0.5 · 2021=0 · 2022=1.2 · BLS 3.3

Where NISCO-Fort Wayne falls in its industry

266 Mechanical rubber goods (i.e., establishments

Safer than 95% 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 #2 safest of 20 Mechanical rubber goods (i.e., employers in Indiana.

NISCO-Fort Wayne (226 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate NISCO-Fort Wayne
NISCO-Fort Wayne (226 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.6

NISCO-Fort Wayne has more employees than the Mechanical rubber goods (i.e., extruded, median and a lower 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
2022 1.2 0.0 4 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.5 0.5 1 0 0
2019 1.0 0.7 3 0 0
2018 1.2 0.4 3 0 0
2017 0.8 0.8 1 1 0
2016 0.8 0.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326291 · IN · Fort Wayne

266 Mechanical rubber goods (i.e., extruded, lathe-cut, molded) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 634 employers in Fort Wayne, 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 VIP Rubber and Plastic Company Inc. 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR HPH Facility West Plains 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR GP Rubber 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR clark rubber 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE FKCI Midwest Offfice 226 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tate & Lyle, Lafayette South 226 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kelly Box & Packaging 226 FTE
STATE-SIZE Keystone RV Plant 311 226 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview Memorial Hospital 6,096 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview North Hospital 4,648 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview Corporate Office 3,312 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shambaugh & Son LP 3,072 FTE
NAT-TCR Silver Arrow Estates 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 180 East Fifth 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Andover 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR A Cleaner World Dry Cleaners Inc. 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1215 - Oceanside Ny Whse 226 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1114 - Concordville Pa Whse 226 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1084 - Brookhaven Ga Whse 226 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1191 - Kalamazoo Mi Whse 226 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: 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.