Fluid power actuators manufacturing · Indiana

PHD, Inc. Fort Wayne

Fort Wayne, IN · ~104 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

PHD, Inc. Fort Wayne runs at 95% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Fluid power actuators manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

PHD, Inc. Fort Wayne: 3.1 TCR = 95% of Fluid power actuators manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

PHD, Inc. Fort Wayne safety composite

PHD, Inc. Fort Wayne scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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).

D

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.5

2020→2022

PHD, Inc. Fort Wayne injury rate improved

PHD, Inc. Fort Wayne's TCR fell 4.5 from 5.7 in 2020 to 1.3 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.7 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=5.7 · 2021=2.4 · 2022=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333995 · Fort Wayne, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 95% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #9/12
  • PHOTO Venture Mfg Co
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~104 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Venture Mfg Co (0.0 TCR gap)

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PHD, Inc. Fort Wayne in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows PHD, Inc. Fort Wayne averages 3.1 TCR (95% of the Fluid power actuators manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

PHD, Inc. Fort Wayne TCR series: 2020=5.7 · 2021=2.4 · 2022=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where PHD, Inc. Fort Wayne falls in its industry

137 Fluid power actuators manufact establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 12 Fluid power actuators manufact employers in Indiana.

PHD, Inc. Fort Wayne (104 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 PHD, Inc. Fort Wayne
PHD, Inc. Fort Wayne (104 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.6

PHD, Inc. Fort Wayne has more employees than the Fluid power actuators manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2021 2.4 2.4 2 0 0
2020 5.7 4.6 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333995 · IN · Fort Wayne

137 Fluid power actuators 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 Venture Mfg Co 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hydromotion 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Custom Hoists 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Yates Industries South 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Worthington - US - Production 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Muncie Service Center 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pangere 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Native Hardwoods 104 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 Sacramento LDI 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 457 - Rogers-AR 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 623 - Ankeny 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 1144 - Silverdale 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 401 - Brookfield-CT 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE 440 - Hiram 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE 442 - Austell 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE 500 - Coralville 104 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.