Adobe bricks manufacturing · Indiana

Refractory Service Corp.

Hammond, IN · ~31 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Refractory Service Corp. runs at 276% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Adobe bricks manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Refractory Service Corp.: 9.1 TCR = 276% of Adobe bricks manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Refractory Service Corp. safety composite

Refractory Service Corp. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

−3.0

2020→2024

Refractory Service Corp. injury rate improved

Refractory Service Corp.'s TCR fell 3.0 from 16.7 in 2020 to 13.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 16.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=16.7 · 2021=3.0 · 2022=6.5 · 2023=5.7 · 2024=13.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327120 · Hammond, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.1 · 276% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #7/9
  • PHOTO USB Indiana, LLC
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: USB Indiana, LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Refractory Service Corp. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Refractory Service Corp. averages 9.1 TCR (276% of the Adobe bricks manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Refractory Service Corp. TCR series: 2020=16.7 · 2021=3 · 2022=6.5 · 2023=5.7 · 2024=13.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Refractory Service Corp. falls in its industry

307 Adobe bricks manufacturing establishments

Safer than 10% 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 #7 safest of 9 Adobe bricks manufacturing employers in Indiana.

Refractory Service Corp. (31 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Refractory Service Corp.
Refractory Service Corp. (31 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Refractory Service Corp. has fewer employees than the Adobe bricks manufacturing median and a higher 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
2024 13.7 3.4 4 0 0
2023 5.7 2.8 2 0 0
2022 6.5 3.3 2 0 0
2021 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2020 16.7 16.7 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327120 · IN · Hammond

307 Adobe bricks manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 136 employers in Hammond, 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 USB Indiana, LLC 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Epro Tile dba JDF Tile Inc. 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Shale Cleveland County 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR UST, Inc Landmark Ceramics 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Black Gold Farms - INW 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midwest Pullet Farm 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Whitestown, IN 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sullivan Service Center 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR HORSESHOE HAMMOND 1,312 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lear Corporation - Hammond 920 FTE
CITY-NEAR Franciscan Health Hammond 535 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2818 419 FTE
NAT-TCR 1962 - Waxahachie 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 1355 - Lacey 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR CBRF - DePere 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR TXS028 9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ennis, Inc. 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Golden Business Forms Inc. 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Creston Quality Inn 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Closed Loop Recycling 31 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, 2022, 2021, 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.