Machine shops · Indiana

Rathburn Tool & Manufacturing

Auburn, IN · ~32 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rathburn Tool & Manufacturing runs at 265% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade F.

Rathburn Tool & Manufacturing: 8.8 TCR = 265% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rathburn Tool & Manufacturing safety composite

Rathburn Tool & Manufacturing scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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 8.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Rathburn Tool & Manufacturing: 7.1 → 9.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.38× in 2023

Rathburn Tool & Manufacturing's TCR rose 2.8 from 7.1 in 2021 to 9.9 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Auburn, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 265% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #50/57
  • PHOTO Innov8 Manufacturing…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Innov8 Manufacturing LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Rathburn Tool & Manufacturing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rathburn Tool & Manufacturing averages 8.8 TCR (265% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Rathburn Tool & Manufacturing TCR series: 2021=7.1 · 2022=9.2 · 2023=9.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Rathburn Tool & Manufacturing falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #50 safest of 57 Machine shops employers in Indiana.

Rathburn Tool & Manufacturing (32 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Rathburn Tool & Manufacturing
Rathburn Tool & Manufacturing (32 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Rathburn Tool & Manufacturing has fewer employees than the Machine shops median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2023 9.9 3.3 2 1 0
2022 9.2 0.0 3 0 0
2021 7.1 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · IN · Auburn

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 50 employers in Auburn, 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 Innov8 Manufacturing LLC 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bayside 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR WPMA 0040 (LOUISVILLE, KY) - F 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR BB Diversified Services Ltd. 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE R. Gallagher Generating Station 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aurora 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jasper County REMC Headquarters 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Indiana American Water-Northwest District Borman Park Water Treatment Plant 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR DeKalb Health 641 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 6074 575 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cooper Standard Automotive 503 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6074 502 FTE
NAT-TCR Goyenetche Dairy LLC 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR American Surfacing Materials, LLC 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Trical - Mojave 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Hilton Garden Inn 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE ServiceMaster Cleaning & Restoration by NEK 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carolina Metal Recyclers, Inc. 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lake Wendell Farming Co. LLC 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE United Piping, Inc. 32 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: 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.