Belts, conveyor, made from purchased wire · Indiana

Sandin Mfg.

Michigan City, IN · ~62 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sandin Mfg. runs at 86% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Belts, conveyor, made from purchased wire workplace, earning a grade C.

Sandin Mfg.: 2.9 TCR = 86% of Belts, conveyor, made from purchased wire BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sandin Mfg. safety composite

Sandin Mfg. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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).

D

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

Sandin Mfg.: 1.5 → 4.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.46× in 2023

Sandin Mfg.'s TCR rose 2.6 from 1.5 in 2016 to 4.2 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332618 · Michigan City, IN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 86% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #3/11
  • PHOTO Stephens Pipe & Stee…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~62 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Stephens Pipe & Steel LLC BALLENGER (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sandin Mfg. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sandin Mfg. averages 2.9 TCR (86% of the Belts, conveyor, made from purchased wire BLS benchmark).

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

Sandin Mfg. TCR series: 2016=1.5 · 2023=4.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Sandin Mfg. falls in its industry

270 Belts, conveyor, made from pur 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 #3 safest of 11 Belts, conveyor, made from pur employers in Indiana.

Sandin Mfg. (62 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Sandin Mfg.
Sandin Mfg. (62 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Sandin Mfg. has more employees than the Belts, conveyor, made from purchased wir 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
2023 4.2 4.2 3 0 0
2016 1.5 1.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332618 · IN · Michigan City

270 Belts, conveyor, made from purchased wire employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 111 employers in Michigan City, 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 Stephens Pipe & Steel LLC BALLENGER 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Helix Steel 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marlboro Wire Ltd. 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quality Chain Corp 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corteva Windfall 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE TCCo-IND 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Construction Solutions Group 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE James H Drew Corporation - Indiana 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR Franciscan Health Michigan City 938 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Chip Casino Hotel Spa 772 FTE
CITY-NEAR Michigan City High School 603 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hearthside Foods Solutions 602 FTE
NAT-TCR Paragon Manufacturing Corp 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sanford Office 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Greensboro Resource Center - PNG 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR River Oaks Properties LTD 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 104054 - Omaha Riverfront 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Charleston 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Walinga USA Inc 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5250 Central 62 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, 2016. 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.