Manufacturer of fabricated and insulated wire · Indiana

Southwire Bremen

Bremen, IN · ~521 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southwire Bremen runs at 46% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Manufacturer of fabricated and insulated wire workplace, earning a grade A.

Southwire Bremen: 1.5 TCR = 46% of Manufacturer of fabricated and insulated wire BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southwire Bremen safety composite

Southwire Bremen scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.6

2021→2023

Southwire Bremen injury rate improved

Southwire Bremen's TCR fell 0.6 from 1.9 in 2021 to 1.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 1.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=1.9 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331420 · Bremen, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 46% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #10/23
  • PHOTO Southwire North Campus
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~521 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Southwire North Campus (0.1 TCR gap)

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Southwire Bremen in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southwire Bremen averages 1.5 TCR (46% of the Manufacturer of fabricated and insulated wire BLS benchmark).

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

Southwire Bremen TCR series: 2021=1.9 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Southwire Bremen falls in its industry

198 Manufacturer of fabricated and establishments

Safer than 80% 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 #10 safest of 23 Manufacturer of fabricated and employers in Indiana.

Southwire Bremen (521 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Southwire Bremen
Southwire Bremen (521 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Southwire Bremen has more employees than the Manufacturer of fabricated and insulated 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 1.3 0.8 8 0 0
2022 1.4 1.0 7 0 0
2021 1.9 0.7 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331420 · IN · Bremen

198 Manufacturer of fabricated and insulated wire employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 28 employers in Bremen, 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 Southwire North Campus 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rea Magnet Wire 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Florence 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR CCI-El Paso Facility 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cenveo Discount Labels 521 FTE
STATE-SIZE PMC Muncie IN Locomotive 521 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oakland Avenue 521 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thor Motor Coach/Plant 850 520 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bremen Wire Plant 510 FTE
CITY-NEAR NISCO-Bremen 350 FTE
CITY-NEAR Universal Bearings LLC 315 FTE
CITY-NEAR Digger Specialties, Inc 264 FTE
NAT-TCR ATC Automation 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Finnmax LLC 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Farmingdale Location 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #0384 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Primrose Candy Company 521 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lakeland Care Inc 521 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northport Building 521 FTE
NAT-SIZE Montage Deer Valley 521 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.