Air compressors manufacturing · Indiana

Sullivan-Palatek Inc

Michigan City, IN · ~163 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sullivan-Palatek Inc runs at 98% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Air compressors manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Sullivan-Palatek Inc: 3.2 TCR = 98% of Air compressors manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sullivan-Palatek Inc safety composite

Sullivan-Palatek Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Sullivan-Palatek Inc: 2.2 → 6.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.24× in 2022

Sullivan-Palatek Inc's TCR rose 4.1 from 2.2 in 2019 to 6.3 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333912 · Michigan City, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 98% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO Knoxair
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~163 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Knoxair (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sullivan-Palatek Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sullivan-Palatek Inc averages 3.2 TCR (98% of the Air compressors manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sullivan-Palatek Inc TCR series: 2019=2.2 · 2020=1.2 · 2021=3.2 · 2022=6.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Sullivan-Palatek Inc falls in its industry

128 Air compressors manufacturing establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 6 Air compressors manufacturing employers in Indiana.

Sullivan-Palatek Inc (163 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 1.7 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sullivan-Palatek Inc
Sullivan-Palatek Inc (163 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 1.7

Sullivan-Palatek Inc has more employees than the Air compressors manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.7. 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
2022 6.3 4.0 10 1 0
2021 3.2 2.5 5 0 0
2020 1.2 1.2 2 0 0
2019 2.2 1.7 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333912 · IN · Michigan City

128 Air compressors manufacturing 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 Knoxair 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gardner Denver Sedalia MO 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Great Plains Gas Compression Holdings, LLC 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR ACI Services Inc. 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Water Division 163 FTE
STATE-SIZE BDR-IndyNorth 163 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rolling Prairie 163 FTE
STATE-SIZE EACI 163 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 Tosca - Hazleton 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 370 - Rockwall 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Donor Testing Laboratory 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 1071 - Conroe 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Food City Store #821 163 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate 163 FTE
NAT-SIZE 64 - Woodridge 163 FTE
NAT-SIZE 428 - Elmhurst 163 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.