Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers · Indiana

SMS New Carlisle

New Carlisle, IN · ~23 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SMS New Carlisle runs at 261% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

SMS New Carlisle: 5.7 TCR = 261% of Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SMS New Carlisle safety composite

SMS New Carlisle scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

SMS New Carlisle: 0.0 → 11.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 11.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.5× in 2017

SMS New Carlisle's TCR rose 11.5 from 0.0 in 2016 to 11.5 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · New Carlisle, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.7 · 261% of ind

  • DART 8.6 DART
  • RANK #37/55
  • PHOTO PnP Columbus
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PnP Columbus (0.0 TCR gap)

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SMS New Carlisle in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SMS New Carlisle averages 5.7 TCR (261% of the Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

SMS New Carlisle TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=11.5 · BLS 2.2

Where SMS New Carlisle falls in its industry

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #37 safest of 55 Metal scrap and waste merchant employers in Indiana.

SMS New Carlisle (23 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 020406080100 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate SMS New Carlisle
SMS New Carlisle (23 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

SMS New Carlisle has fewer employees than the Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesale median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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
2017 11.5 8.6 4 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · IN · New Carlisle

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 23 employers in New Carlisle, 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 PnP Columbus 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Used Cardboard Boxes, Inc 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chambersburg Waste Paper Co., Inc. 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Green Bay Recycling Plant 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Prairie's Edge Farming Company 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pineywoods Farm 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hatchery 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greensburg 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR I/N Tek & Kote 517 FTE
CITY-NEAR I/N Tek & Kote (EIN: I/N Tek 36-5225438; I/N Kote 36-3665288) 494 FTE
CITY-NEAR 102962 - St Joseph Energy Center 234 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Carlisle Facility 153 FTE
NAT-TCR Jacksonville - MB 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Covington (Lacov) 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Schaffner Manufacturing Co., Inc 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Oldham Street 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tishler Industries Incorporated 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE TPC 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0614 - Yuba City, Ca 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0533 - Yakima, Wa 23 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: 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.