Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing · Indiana

Paul's Welding Inc.

Nappanee, IN · ~91 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
19.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Paul's Welding Inc. runs at 585% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Paul's Welding Inc.: 19.3 TCR = 585% of Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Paul's Welding Inc. safety composite

Paul's Welding Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 19.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

−4.9

2016→2024

Paul's Welding Inc. injury rate improved

Paul's Welding Inc.'s TCR fell 4.9 from 12.8 in 2016 to 7.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 74.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=12.8 · 2018=74.3 · 2019=38.9 · 2023=17.5 · 2024=7.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Nappanee, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 19.3 · 585% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #52/53
  • PHOTO St. Thomas Steel, Inc.
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 90 inj
  • SIZE ~91 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: St. Thomas Steel, Inc. (0.2 TCR gap)

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Paul's Welding Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Paul's Welding Inc. averages 19.3 TCR (585% of the Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Paul's Welding Inc. TCR series: 2016=12.8 · 2018=74.3 · 2019=38.9 · 2023=17.5 · 2024=7.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Paul's Welding Inc. falls in its industry

1,491 Structural steel, fabricated, establishments

Safer than 1% 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 #52 safest of 53 Structural steel, fabricated, employers in Indiana.

Paul's Welding Inc. (91 employees, TCR 19.3) 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Paul's Welding Inc.
Paul's Welding Inc. (91 employees, TCR 19.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Paul's Welding Inc. has more employees than the Structural steel, fabricated, manufactur median and a higher 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 7.9 3.4 14 0 0
2023 17.5 11.7 21 0 0
2019 38.9 0.0 18 0 0
2018 74.3 15.8 33 0 0
2016 12.8 3.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · IN · Nappanee

1,491 Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 38 employers in Nappanee, 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 St. Thomas Steel, Inc. 19.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR EMPIRE BUCKET INC 19.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kasco Fab, Inc. 19.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR XTCrbn 19.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE WVPA Headquarters 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Niblock Excavating & Asphalt Inc 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midwest Roofing-Sheet Metal 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE For Bare Feet, LLC 91 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newmar Corporation 964 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aluminum Trailer Company 469 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gulf Stream Plant 51 376 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shawnee St 281 FTE
NAT-TCR Venice District Maint. 19.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Vallejo 19.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ornbe - North Bend (Ornbe) 19.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0423 19.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Select Specialty Hospital - Sioux Falls, Inc. (d/b/a Select Specialty Hospital - South Dakota) 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE AHC Resource Center 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goya Foods Georgia - McDonough 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Chevron Hou 1500 Janitorial 91 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, 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.