Low slope roofing installation · Indiana

Preferred, Inc. - Fort Wayne

Ft, Wayne, IN · ~86 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Preferred, Inc. - Fort Wayne runs at 99% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Low slope roofing installation workplace, earning a grade C.

Preferred, Inc. - Fort Wayne: 2.8 TCR = 99% of Low slope roofing installation BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Preferred, Inc. - Fort Wayne safety composite

Preferred, Inc. - Fort Wayne scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 63% 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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

Preferred, Inc. - Fort Wayne: 2.3 → 3.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 3.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.39× in 2018

Preferred, Inc. - Fort Wayne's TCR rose 0.9 from 2.3 in 2017 to 3.2 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238160 · Ft, Wayne, IN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 99% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #17/42
  • PHOTO Boone Brothers Kansas
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~86 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Boone Brothers Kansas (0.0 TCR gap)

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Preferred, Inc. - Fort Wayne in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Preferred, Inc. - Fort Wayne averages 2.8 TCR (99% of the Low slope roofing installation BLS benchmark).

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

Preferred, Inc. - Fort Wayne TCR series: 2017=2.3 · 2018=3.2 · BLS 2.8

Where Preferred, Inc. - Fort Wayne falls in its industry

1,723 Low slope roofing installation establishments

Safer than 63% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 42 Low slope roofing installation employers in Indiana.

Preferred, Inc. - Fort Wayne (86 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 050100150 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Preferred, Inc. - Fort Wayne
Preferred, Inc. - Fort Wayne (86 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Preferred, Inc. - Fort Wayne has more employees than the Low slope roofing installation median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2018 3.2 1.1 3 0 0
2017 2.3 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238160 · IN · Ft, Wayne

1,723 Low slope roofing installation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 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 Boone Brothers Kansas 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jolly Roofing & Contracting Nashville Office 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Diamond Roofing Company, Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR AZ Roofing Works LLC 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Service Bird Crew / E-Crew 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Service / Bird Crew 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Indy One Hour Heating and Air Conditioning 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-Indianapolis 86 FTE
NAT-TCR Highland Healthcare 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Fairfield Inn Austin N 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Joy Global Underground LLC - Duffield 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR North Pacific Management Inc 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Vicks Lithograph & Printing 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE B-X Yarmouth LLC 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE KCP&L - Johnson County Service Center 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE UXPB Pest Control 86 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: 2018, 2017. 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.