Latex foam rubber manufacturing · Indiana

Teach Enterprises/Century Foam

Elkhart, IN · ~163 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Teach Enterprises/Century Foam runs at 74% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Latex foam rubber manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Teach Enterprises/Century Foam: 2.4 TCR = 74% of Latex foam rubber manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Teach Enterprises/Century Foam safety composite

Teach Enterprises/Century Foam scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.0

2017→2019

Teach Enterprises/Century Foam injury rate improved

Teach Enterprises/Century Foam's TCR fell 3.0 from 3.6 in 2017 to 0.7 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.6 · 2018=3.0 · 2019=0.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326299 · Elkhart, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 74% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #2/10
  • PHOTO Rubber Engineering a…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~163 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rubber Engineering and Development Co Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Teach Enterprises/Century Foam in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Teach Enterprises/Century Foam averages 2.4 TCR (74% of the Latex foam rubber manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Teach Enterprises/Century Foam TCR series: 2017=3.6 · 2018=3 · 2019=0.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Teach Enterprises/Century Foam falls in its industry

257 Latex foam rubber manufacturin establishments

Safer than 68% 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 #2 safest of 10 Latex foam rubber manufacturin employers in Indiana.

Teach Enterprises/Century Foam (163 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Teach Enterprises/Century Foam
Teach Enterprises/Century Foam (163 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Teach Enterprises/Century Foam has more employees than the Latex foam rubber manufacturing median and a lower 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
2019 0.7 0.7 1 0 0
2018 3.0 1.5 4 0 0
2017 3.6 0.0 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326299 · IN · Elkhart

257 Latex foam rubber manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 401 employers in Elkhart, 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 Rubber Engineering and Development Co Inc 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Phoenix 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meggitt - Oregon Inc 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gold Key Processing, Inc. dba Hexpol Middlefield 2.5 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 Forest River, Inc. 12,549 FTE
CITY-NEAR THOR MOTOR COACH 2,437 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elkhart Community Schools 1,892 FTE
CITY-NEAR HRV LLC 1,692 FTE
NAT-TCR 5472-Swy 0035 3250 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0005 3723 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0027 1619 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-Swy 0025 2908 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 345 Inverness Dr S Ste 300 163 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4832 Kindred Rehab Hospital Clearlake 163 FTE
NAT-SIZE Knust Godwin LLC 163 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6962-Swy 0025 1757 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.