Inhalators, surgical and medical, manufacturing · Indiana

Smiths Medical - Gary

Name: Smiths Medical - Gary Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Gary, IN · ~175 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 1.7
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Smiths Medical - Gary runs at 50% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Inhalators, surgical and medical, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Smiths Medical - Gary: 1.7 TCR = 50% of Inhalators, surgical and medical, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smiths Medical - Gary safety composite

Smiths Medical - Gary scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 46%), 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).

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 1.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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%).

Smiths Medical - Gary held a steady TCR band

Smiths Medical - Gary's TCR held near 0.0 from 1.4 in 2016 to 1.4 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.2 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.4 · 2017=2.2 · 2019=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339112 · Gary, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 50% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #11/39
PHOTO Teleflex / Essential…
BOOK 3y book
INJ 6 inj
SIZE ~175 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Teleflex / Essential Medical, Exton (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Smiths Medical - Gary averages 1.7 TCR (50% of the Inhalators, surgical and medical, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Smiths Medical - Gary TCR series: 2016=1.4 · 2017=2.2 · 2019=1.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Smiths Medical - Gary falls in its industry

741 Inhalators, surgical and medic establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 39 Inhalators, surgical and medic employers in Indiana.

Smiths Medical - Gary (175 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 174 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Smiths Medical - Gary has more employees than the Inhalators, surgical and medical, manufa median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2019	1.4	0.0	0	2
2017	2.2	1.4	3	0
2016	1.4	1.4	3	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339112 · IN · Gary

741 Inhalators, surgical and medical, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 107 employers in Gary, IN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Teleflex / Essential Medical, Exton	EXTON, PA	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Penumbra, Inc. - Salt Lake City	SALT LAKE CITY, UT	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	DAC International	CARPINTERIA, CA	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	BD St. Louis	SAINT LOUIS, MO	1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Osborn Richmond	RICHMOND	175 FTE
STATE-SIZE	TAG State Wide Aluminum, Inc.	ELKHART	175 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Keystone Plant 1	GOSHEN	175 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Merrillville IN	MERRILLVILLE	175 FTE
CITY-NEAR	USS Gary Works - Plant	Gary	4,744 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Gary Works	Gary	3,767 FTE
CITY-NEAR	HRNI Holdings, LLC	Gary	1,430 FTE
CITY-NEAR	AMZL : DIN2	Gary	569 FTE
NAT-TCR	Peco Foods Processing Plant	Sebastopol, MS	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Westlake Chemical - Gallman	Hazlehurst, MS	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	52nd Avenue Clinic	Fargo, ND	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	MGRC Livermore	Livermore, CA	1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Meadowview Conference Resort and Convention Center	Kingsport, TN	175 FTE
NAT-SIZE	102 - Springfield-IL	Springfield, IL	175 FTE
NAT-SIZE	272 - Kirkwood	Wilmington, DE	175 FTE
NAT-SIZE	380 - Nanuet	Nanuet, NY	175 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: 2019, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.