Polyethylene terephathalate (PET) resins manufacturing · Indiana

Placon Elkhart

Elkhart, IN · ~101 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Placon Elkhart runs at 38% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Polyethylene terephathalate (PET) resins manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Placon Elkhart: 1.2 TCR = 38% of Polyethylene terephathalate (PET) resins manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Placon Elkhart safety composite

Placon Elkhart scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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%).

Placon Elkhart held a steady TCR band

Placon Elkhart's TCR held near 0.1 from 1.4 in 2020 to 1.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 1.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=1.4 · 2023=1.0 · 2024=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325211 · Elkhart, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 38% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/17
  • PHOTO InChem Rock Hill LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~101 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: InChem Rock Hill LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Placon Elkhart in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Placon Elkhart averages 1.2 TCR (38% of the Polyethylene terephathalate (PET) resins manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Placon Elkhart TCR series: 2020=1.4 · 2023=1 · 2024=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Placon Elkhart falls in its industry

644 Polyethylene terephathalate (P establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 17 Polyethylene terephathalate (P employers in Indiana.

Placon Elkhart (101 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Placon Elkhart
Placon Elkhart (101 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Placon Elkhart has more employees than the Polyethylene terephathalate (PET) resins median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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 1.3 0.0 1 0 0
2023 1.0 0.0 1 0 0
2020 1.4 1.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325211 · IN · Elkhart

644 Polyethylene terephathalate (PET) resins manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 401 employers in Elkhart, 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 InChem Rock Hill LLC 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR INEOS ABS LLC 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Resinall, Corp. - Severn 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bostik, Inc. 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Clean Fuels National 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE 105-NiSource-Hammond IN-Operating HQ 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE HMH Contractors, Inc. 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northwestern Indiana Telephone Company 101 FTE
CITY-NEAR Forest River, Inc. 12,549 FTE
CITY-NEAR THOR MOTOR COACH 2,437 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elkhart Community Schools 1,892 FTE
CITY-NEAR HRV LLC 1,692 FTE
NAT-TCR Nucor Tubular Products - Trinity 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR New Albany 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Pharr Warehouse 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Nomaco Inc 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Morcon Construction Co., Inc. 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Preferred Plastics 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE K-Tek Carolina 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Milton 101 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, 2020. 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.