Magnet wire, insulated, made from purchased copper in wire drawing plants · Indiana

Superior Essex

Fort Wayne, IN · ~199 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

Superior Essex runs at 51% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Magnet wire, insulated, made from purchased copper in wire drawing plants workplace, earning a grade B.

Superior Essex: 1.7 TCR = 51% of Magnet wire, insulated, made from purchased copper in wire drawing plants BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Superior Essex safety composite

Superior Essex scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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

−0.9

2016→2024

Superior Essex injury rate improved

Superior Essex's TCR fell 0.9 from 1.5 in 2016 to 0.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 10.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.5 · 2017=1.0 · 2018=0.5 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=10.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 51% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #11/23
  • PHOTO Southwire Douglas Pl…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~199 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Southwire Douglas Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Superior Essex in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Superior Essex averages 1.7 TCR (51% of the Magnet wire, insulated, made from purchased copper in wire drawing plants BLS benchmark).

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

Superior Essex TCR series: 2016=1.5 · 2017=1 · 2018=0.5 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=10 · 2023=0 · 2024=0.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Superior Essex falls in its industry

198 Magnet wire, insulated, made f establishments

Safer than 78% 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 #11 safest of 23 Magnet wire, insulated, made f employers in Indiana.

Superior Essex (199 employees, TCR 1.7) 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 Superior Essex
Superior Essex (199 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Superior Essex has more employees than the Magnet wire, insulated, made from purcha 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
2024 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 10.0 4.4 0 16 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.5 0.5 1 0 0
2017 1.0 1.0 2 0 0
2016 1.5 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331420 · IN · Fort Wayne

198 Magnet wire, insulated, made from purchased copper in wire drawing plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 634 employers in Fort Wayne, 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 Douglas Plant 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Service Wire Company Culloden 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR IWG High Performance Conductors, Inc 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Florence 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Edwardsport IGCC 199 FTE
STATE-SIZE Richardson Molding LLC 199 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kauffman Engineering, Inc. LEB 199 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dekko - Garrett 199 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview Memorial Hospital 6,096 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview North Hospital 4,648 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview Corporate Office 3,312 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shambaugh & Son LP 3,072 FTE
NAT-TCR Banner Metals Group 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR United Oil of the Carolinas, Inc 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Harvard Maintenance LLC of Massachusetts 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Steel Way Facility 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Jonesboro AR Mill 199 FTE
NAT-SIZE Astor Chocolate Corporation 199 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mersen USA St Marys 199 FTE
NAT-SIZE Riddle Engineered Wood 199 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.