Powder coating metals and metal products for the trade · Indiana

Praxair Surface Technologies - Powders Plant

Indianapolis, IN · ~98 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Praxair Surface Technologies - Powders Plant runs at 15% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Powder coating metals and metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade A.

Praxair Surface Technologies - Powders Plant: 0.5 TCR = 15% of Powder coating metals and metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Praxair Surface Technologies - Powders Plant safety composite

Praxair Surface Technologies - Powders Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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

Praxair Surface Technologies - Powders Plant: 0.0 → 1.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 1.0 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2021

Praxair Surface Technologies - Powders Plant's TCR rose 1.0 from 0.0 in 2020 to 1.0 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332812 · Indianapolis, IN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 15% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #2/32
  • PHOTO QuantumClean - San J…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~98 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: QuantumClean - San Jose (0.0 TCR gap)

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Praxair Surface Technologies - Powders Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Praxair Surface Technologies - Powders Plant averages 0.5 TCR (15% of the Powder coating metals and metal products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

Praxair Surface Technologies - Powders Plant TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=1 · BLS 3.3

Where Praxair Surface Technologies - Powders Plant falls in its industry

646 Powder coating metals and meta establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

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 32 Powder coating metals and meta employers in Indiana.

Praxair Surface Technologies - Powders Plant (98 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 Praxair Surface Technologies - Powders Plant
Praxair Surface Technologies - Powders Plant (98 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Praxair Surface Technologies - Powders Plant has more employees than the Powder coating metals and metal products median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2021 1.0 1.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332812 · IN · Indianapolis

646 Powder coating metals and metal products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 2,074 employers in Indianapolis, 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 QuantumClean - San Jose 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oerlikon Balzers Coating USA Inc - Amherst, NY 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quality Spraying Technologies, Inc 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Texas Nameplate Company 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Logansport Utilites 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pemberton Davis Electric 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE American Beverage Marketers 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE House of Fara, Inc 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR Indiana University Health, Inc 7,874 FTE
CITY-NEAR Methodist Hospital 6,862 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eli Lilly - Lilly Corp Center 6,482 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lilly Technology Center 6,472 FTE
NAT-TCR Bwe 1713 Greenville 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Grandview Winnelson 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Complete HealthCare Resources 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Angelitos Brillantes Pueblo 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sigora Solar 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corrosion Fluid Products (CFP) 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Universal Forest Products- Chandler LLC 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Choctaw General Hospital 98 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: 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.