Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing · Indiana

Stafco

Columbia City, IN · ~22 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Stafco runs at 265% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Stafco: 8.8 TCR = 265% of Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Stafco safety composite

Stafco scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Stafco: 8.2 → 9.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.07× in 2024

Stafco's TCR rose 1.2 from 8.2 in 2023 to 9.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332420 · Columbia City, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 265% of ind

  • DART 9.3 DART
  • RANK #12/17
  • PHOTO Schmidt - Front St.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Schmidt - Front St. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Stafco in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Stafco averages 8.8 TCR (265% of the Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Stafco TCR series: 2023=8.2 · 2024=9.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Stafco falls in its industry

355 Water tanks, heavy gauge metal establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 17 Water tanks, heavy gauge metal employers in Indiana.

Stafco (22 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Stafco
Stafco (22 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Stafco has fewer employees than the Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufact median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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 9.3 9.3 2 0 0
2023 8.2 4.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332420 · IN · Columbia City

355 Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 67 employers in Columbia 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 Schmidt - Front St. 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Highland Tank, LLC (Manheim, PA) 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbiana Boiler Company, LLC 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR VTEC A Division of SAS Global Corp 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wilson Fertilizer, Inc. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE MISHAWAKA CONCRETE ASPHALT RECYCLE INC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE MCAR 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Connersville District Office 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steel Dynamics, Inc. - Structural and Rail 944 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steel Dynamics Structural & Rail Division 802 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lear Corporation - Columbia City 529 FTE
CITY-NEAR Undersea Sensor Systems Inc 527 FTE
NAT-TCR Ksemp - Emporia 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR NRH SL Operations, LP 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Buffalo Rock Dothan 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sawbrook Steel Casting LLC 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE UTR Services 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE TownePlace Suites Milwaukee West Bend 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE HDS Scotts 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gerretsen Building Supply 22 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. 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.